Social change conditioned by social progress opens up new alternative considerations about the relationship between man, nature and technology. With the emergence of rapidly evolving technology, the humanistic hierarchical-anthropocentric mindset has become an outdated thought practice. Posthumanity is therefore a state in which a human has to redefine reality due to the revenues of technology and perceive transhumanism as a continuation of the humanistic anthropocentric tendency, where the technology is used as a means of deepening ultimate superiority. Posthumanism, on the other hand, by departing from established dialectical practices of thought, accepts technology as a creative potential for a collective assemblage that builds alternative and affirmative trusting relationships. The latter perspectives can be examined as two possible utopias of modern times, as through critical dissatisfaction with the present they offer peculiar speculative visions of the future. The case study, the transhumanistic thought experiment Roko' Basilisk, presents an empirical example of the modern utopia of the 21st century. The central goal is to show that the transhumanist vision of an inherently dystopian antagonism between technology (artificial intelligence) and the human is a product of a distrustful dialectical mindset that can be corrected by alternative posthumanist visions of affirmative trust.
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