ScholarWorks@숙명여자대학교

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Science fictions in Japan introduce the development of various sciences, such as information and communication technology, neuroscience, cognitive science, computer-neural networking, and genetic engineering, and describe the future society in which such technologies are implemented. As a result those fictions question what human freedom is, what mind is, what consciousness is, what feeling is, etc, and these constitute posthuman imagination. Specifically, Project Itoh poses posthuman problems mainly caused by the development of ICT and brain science in Genocidal Organ and Harmony. He argues that the ICT is based on a human vision of “predictable human beings,” and thus, in this society, different personalities are denied and predictable thoughts and behaviors are recommended and reproduced. As a result, modern “freedom,” which means “self-determination without interference from the other,” is denied. Itoh also suggests that the development of brain science can manipulate human “will” or “consciousness” that has been discussed since the modern age on the basis of human existence, making us difficult to form a “subject” who is responsible for one's own actions. Despite the cybernetic imagination that humans are machines for processing information, A Story for You by Satoshi Hase emphasizes that the mobility of human freely from one’s body is not the better choice than the human “body,” which is limited by time and space, and life and death. Grand Vacation and Rugged Girl by Hirotaka Tobi, criticize that, even if human beings migrate to cyberspace through the separation of mind and body, the problems of human society are not solved, only revealing the limits of “human centrism” as they are evident in ethical issues related to the AI. As such, the development of science and technology demands “redefinition” of human nature and human society, and the SF is responding in various ways to the problems that human beings will face in the future.

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