Serial Number : http://www.riss.kr/link?id=A105678165
Title : Posthumanscape in Neuromancer: Interaction Between Cyborgs and Artificial Intelligences
Author : 추재욱 (Jae-Uk CHOO)
Journal : 比較文學 (COMPARATIVE LITERATURE)
Vol. : 76 No.- [2018]
Pages : 281-303발행처: 한국비교문학회 (The Korean Comparative Literature Association)
Date : 2018.10
Register Information : KCI
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<Abstract>
William Gibson’s Neuromancer shows the future world full of so-called posthumans like artificial Intelligences, cyborgs and robots. In fact, we cannot say that A.I. is completely different from cyborg and robot in their ontological status. They also have to interact with each other as a full member of society and perform in their own to achieve their goals. Among them, two artificial intelligences, Wintermute and Neuromancer, play the most powerful roles in constructing the future world. Wintermute is “hive mind, decision maker, effecting change in the world outside.” On the other hand, Neuromancer is personality and immortality. “Marie-France must have built something into Wintermute, the compulsion that had driven the thing to free itself, to unite with Neuromancer” to pursue their complementary and balanced relationship. However, Ashpool did not agree with her, but strangled her to death, so her idea was ignored and the family community was isolated and disconnected from the outside to the final destruction. To maximize the benefits, Tessier-Ashpool corporation chose the separation between the Wintermute to pursue only the targeted goal and the Neuromancer to make the community warm-hearted. Nevertheless, as originally planned, Marie-France’s dream was achieved to make them one, so the intense anxiety in the posthuman relationship seems to be released while the potential to become a harmonious society seems to increase. As a whole, this novel suggests the necessary ethics as well as the desirable interaction among the posthumans in the posthuman era.
Key words : Neuromacer , Wintermute , Cyborg , Artificial Intelligence , Posthuman
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