Examination of Human Authenticity in “Dr. Daedalus” and “Alone Together”

Throughout the time, humans believe themselves as a superior species by occupying the land to develop and to modify their community. Moreover, people continuously research on human’s specialties. Among several terms, human defines themselves through “human authenticity.” According to two articles, “Dr. Daedalus” and “Alone Together”, two authors thoughtfully examine human authenticity through comparing humans with two other helping objects. A human authenticity includes a relationship with people through communication to solve personal and social problems with people’s previously learned knowledge. Even more, people begin to believe themselves as mostly evolved organisms among other species, which idea is called “Speciesism”. A speciesism defines human authenticity through several aspects of human’s natural abilities. Just human’s intelligence does not define their identity, but a physical appearance and human-to-human relationship including performance of intelligence all combine to explain a complex species of humans. A speciesism allows people to perform their abilities which is directly relate to people’s authenticity. Lauren Slater, an author of “Dr. Daedalus,” describes a bond between a plastic surgery and human’s identity. On the other hand, Sherry Turkle, an author of “Alone Together,” explains a cyber-alternation of humans’ problems, loneliness and relationship. From the articles, the term “marvel” defines a human with animal aspects, and a cyber-alternation explains a cyber-world through Internet or an artificial intelligence’s world, which assistances people to modify their lives. Through human’s basic roles on the society, a marvel surgery affects human authenticity negatively by crossing a border of species freely, w...

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...ity, a marvel surgery directly affects human’s specialty by changing human’s perspectives about relationship. By changing human mind, a marvel surgery affects human’s emotional relationships and roles on the society. A marvel surgery defines as acceptable action among people to crossing species with changing human’s endemic ability to solve their complications. Even though a cyber-alternation damages people’s natural learning of relationships, it helps to make a healthier relationship and easier connections to prevent emotional depressions. Nevertheless, if humans only depend on a cyber-alternation, relying on an artificial objects world results a greater threat to the human authenticity as a marvel surgery. Humans can modify the society and to maintain their relationships if humans keep their authenticity throughout the time.