Prof. Dr. Thomas Fuchs, Karl Jaspers Professor for Philosophical Foundations of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Heidelberg, has released a new book: Defending the Human Being: Foundational Questions of an Embodied Anthropology (Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2020).
With the advances in Artificial Intelligence, the digitization of our life-world, and the reduction of the human spirit to neuronal processes, the human being appears increasingly as a product of data and algorithms. We remake and understand ourselves in the image of our machines, while we, in turn, elevate our machines and brains to new subjects. The philosopher and psychiatrist Thomas Fuchs opposes to this self-reification of human beings a humanism of embodiment: our experienced body, vitality, and incarnated freedom are the foundation for a self-determined existence, which allows us to employ technology as tools rather than become dominated by it.
New Book by Dr. Thomas Fuchs