In this paper we discuss the emergence of new social realities in concomitance with the development of certain techno-scientific advances and, in particular, those with origins in biotechnology, bioengineering and Artificial Intelligence. These new social realities are materialised in the development of other forms of consciousness – one robotic and one antispeciesist – that may lead the human...
“The revolution of man is the revolution of his mind”. It implies the possibility of thinking beyond himself, to understand his raison d'être, as a criticism of his own material activity, that locks him out in a perpetual animal state. As the German philosopher Georg Simmel implies in his philosophical work, man is the only animal that refines itself by looking beyond himself. As we cling to...