Wolfgang Schirmacher From THE ARTIFICIAL LIFE DECLARATION

We have an irrevocable right to be human-only human (anthropomorphic). All definitions
of life express solely how human beings have hoped to live. At the core of every individual's existence (Dasein) is the art of living (Lebenskunst) which creates artificial life. There is no art(ificial) life but as good life. As the artificial by nature wo/men design their lives in techniques as well as in technologies. Media, art, and philosophy allow for an aesthetic experience of a good life and a continuous crisis of meaning. The artificial life question is not whether cybernetic systems fulfill criteria of life previously applied to biological systems, but whether the touchstone of a truly artificial life - as with any life form imaginable - is its potential for allowing us a good life.

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