THE DESTRUCTIVE INFLUENCE OF POSTHUMANIST SEMIOTIC IDEOLOGY ON THE ACADEMY AS AN ARCHETYPAL ENTITY
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Aspects of human behavior usually ascribed to the modern age remained fundamentally inviolate during the past several hundred thousand years, but the globally accessible technology of the modern age creates a platform for the emergence of novel selection pressures on the human species, thereby allowing for modification of not only the genetic makeup of a human being, but its phenomenal experience. The globally accessible technology enables semiotic amplification and propagation of an implicit posthumanist ideology, threatening to alter the human being and its consciousness on a phenomenal level. In this paper, I derive an analytical argument that indicates an endangerment of the shared human phenomenal experience, exemplified by analyzing the endangerment of the academic ideal, under the premise of ethical and ontological relevance of phenomenal experiences.
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