Social cybernetics

I am fond of artificial splinters—that is, the products of an artificial reconstruction of humanity's plural social functions. They also represent a certain new, cyberpunk dimension. For instance, separating the functions of love, reproduction, and production, and replacing each with something artificial. For example, replacing human reproductive function with artificial mechanical wombs and artificial insemination (commonly known as artificial human being); replacing human eros with the input of mechanical well-being to influence the subject's own behavior; and replacing human productive function with machines and brains. Consequently, it seems we no longer need humans; there are only those machines executing the exact same numerous functions as humans once did. We only need to activate the artificial womb to continuously breed new mechanical subjects, which then rely on the eros principle to stimulate production and consumption. To be frank, I am a nihilist. I do not believe the system itself possesses any inherent meaning or purpose; its meaning derives from the distant, external universe and the future, possessing an absolute externality. The production machine is always functioning; it serves no human nature. A divine force drives it, steering it toward death and collapse. That is to say, once the various segregated social functions of humanity (such as reproduction, production, and love for the sake of production) can be replaced by some form of machinery, then from a social perspective, this is merely the "concrete implementation" of an "abstract function" shifting from human embodiment to the machine. After all, even Martians could fall into the functions of production, reproduction, and eros. If love, reproduction, and production are all viewed as abstract interfaces of the social system, then humans are merely a historical vehicle for these interfaces. When machines can implement these functions more efficiently, stably, and predictably, the human "state of being needed" vanishes—not by being exterminated, but by being optimized away. Man is a control system that always reacts with a certain trend-based necessity to inputs external to the system. This trend-oriented nature implies the possibility of negation; therefore, precise machine replacements are perhaps more affirmative, definitive, totalitarian, and nihilistic. Fanged Noumena