The New Consciousness: Technology Philosophy learns from Queer Theory

Though they might at first seem unrelated, queer theory connects to technology philosophy in two ways: the general level of the discipline of philosophy and the specificity of content.

First, in the general discipline of philosophy, both queer theory and technology philosophy are areas of innovation in philosophical thought. In thinking innovatively in technology philosophy, it is important to track, understand, and incorporate new developments in philosophical thinking, in this case from the progression of the equality philosophies of decolonialism, feminism, queer theory, and transgender and polyamory rights.

Second, the content of queer theory is of interest to technology philosophy. Some of the relevant topics include:

• Equality Philosophies:  The potential deployment of equality philosophies in a world with a variety of human and non-human intelligences
• Consciousness and its Emergence: The emergence of consciousness in a process of awareness, alterity, and translation which could relate to the waking-up of new forms of consciousness 
• Self-constitution of the Subject: The enlargening understanding of how we are constituted and constitute ourselves as subjects, and how this might change in the future as we have even more interior volition and QS self-direction capability, and at the same time greater competition amongst external influences on the constitution of ourselves as digital subjects with partial or full mindfile upload, where the term subject (currently denoting nicely packaged individual consciousnesses in bodies) could become obsolete 

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Possibility space for objective and subjective truth

While striving to define objective truth is a worthwhile activity, objective truth is perhaps only a small corner of the overall possibility space of available truths. There are many cases where objective truth is not available - it may not be feasible, appropriate, practical, or obtainable, whereas subjective truths may be infinitely available.

Some examples where objective truth may be lacking include future events, existential truths, and cases where objective truth is generally not available to all humans or specific individual humans. Objective truth may be unavailable in other cases that are beyond values, ethics, morals, and reason, and in phenomena in the qualitative, conceptual, intuitive, aesthetic, and experiential realms.

It could be helpful, therefore, to have rigorous methods for structuring thinking about subjective truth.