Augmented Consciousness – Catalogue raisonné d'Hervé Fischer

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213006

Titre :
Augmented Consciousness

Date :
2013

Famille/Série
Icone

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Bibliographie

We speak a lot of augmented reality, which consists of a basket of proposed hyperlinks enriching the information about any monument, restaurant, picture, or what so ever, which we capture with the camera of a smart phone. Enriched media through digital hyperlinks are considered as an added value to our perception through multiple data immediately available with a simple click. It is an important technical progress of digital access to easy and fast knowledge in situ.
And l propose to call augmented consciousness the feeling of responsibility and ethic obligation to act, which we experience thanks to digital media telling us day after day about the permanent scandal of violence, exploitation, inequity, which happen in the world. We know it thanks to a larger and larger access to real time information about everything significant. In both cases – augmented reality and augmented consciousness – the progress is due to the multiplication of hyperlinks offered by digital technologies. Such a situation is activating specific neurons and synapses, which allow the development of a dedicated zone of the human brain, the same way as a violinist develops a specific cerebral network of neurons and synapses allowing him to acquire the skills to play violin with very fast reflexes of his arm and fingers to conduct the performance. We don’t need to call any spiritual presence or soul or transcendence to explain the phenomenon of augmented consciousness. It is simply related to the augmented access to digital hyperlinks of information and the biological patterns of the brain. Today’s neuroscience has established this neuroplasticity of the brain, making him able to respond to our needs.
The progress of our brain and wisdom and ethic responsibility is not certain, although it is much more important for the future of humankind than the progress of the digital technoscience and power, which will continue anyway. Let’s be optimistic and believe in the progress of augmented consciousness, which is the only possible biological response to the increasing dangers of human instrumental power. Digital technologies are not only the problem; they are also the solution to the problem.
Réf : Blog OINM 20/04/2013

Hyperhumanism
Thanks to digital technologies we learn how to use hyperlinks when we navigate on the web and we get access to worldwide information in real time. The Digital Age allows us to get closer to all societies, feel responsibility and share compassion with all members of humanity who are in vulnerability because of natural catastrophes or break down of peace.
We may celebrate the new capacity of digital technologies for offering us “rich media” and « augmented reality » thanks to these multiple hyperlinks giving us complementary information about any historical, social, scientific, cultural data or touristic site. But, even more important, we benefit of what we should call « augmented consciousness » thanks to these same multiple hyperlinks of the web and social media of our new age. This « augmented consciousness” is awaking a deeper sense of human creativity and ethical social responsibility which we develop collectively. It allows us to discover and appreciate the richness of cultural diversity. It allows us to believe again in human progress. It may sound paradoxical that a binary digital code and electronic technology may create nowadays more consciousness and a planetary ethic, but it is a matter of fact, even if the progress is slow and if United Nations agencies encounter so much difficulty to impose peace and human respect. In a time which sees the triumph of techno-scientific logics and the domination of economical one-way thinking, “augmented consciousness” and planetary ethics should still be considered as the key parameters of the future of humanity.

We may therefore propose the new concept of “hyperhumanism” to express our hope for more humanism thanks to more hyperlinks.
Réf : Blog OINM 24/05/2014