---
id: sfoc-states-posthuman-condition
title: "Posthuman Condition"
primary_class: states
primary_domain: memory-identity
secondary_domains: [body-evolution, mind-consciousness]
material_modes: [experiential-report, original-synthesis]
version: 1.0.0
---

# Posthuman Condition

> **the posthuman condition inner witness.** Within the Oracle, Posthuman Condition holds together the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif and continuity, forgetting, archives, testimony, and the stories that hold a self together. That combination creates both an interpretive tool and a responsibility.

## Origin

Posthuman Condition is rooted in reports of lived experience and the vocabularies used to make those reports shareable, but the card’s present form is editorial rather than primordial. Source order and later mutation remain visible. Because the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation, provenance work must compare recollection with records, other witnesses, missing intervals, and the cost of revision.

## What It Is

Within the Oracle, Posthuman Condition holds together the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif and continuity, forgetting, archives, testimony, and the stories that hold a self together. That combination creates both an interpretive tool and a responsibility. In the Oracle it is classified as States & Experiences, while its evidence layers determine how literal, historical, fictional, experiential, or symbolic a particular interpretation may be.

## Cultural History

Posthuman Condition became culturally durable because the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif could be re-read under new pressures. Durability here demonstrates adaptability, not literal proof. At collective scale, the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif affects testimony, belonging, stigma, care, and the ability to coordinate reality; this matters because memory can preserve personhood while also being edited, inherited, contested, or supplied by others.

## Claim and Evidence Layers

  ### literal-and-empirical

- **Claim layer:** literal-and-empirical
- **Material context:** experiential-report
- **Evidence state:** experiential-only
- **Summary:** Posthuman Condition has an experiential-only literal or empirical layer. That designation applies only to the bounded claims supported by the listed sources.
- **Sources:** No external source assigned; editorial synthesis only.

### cultural-and-historical

- **Claim layer:** cultural-and-historical
- **Material context:** experiential-report, original-synthesis
- **Evidence state:** unverified
- **Summary:** Posthuman Condition has a class-level contextual source but still lacks a concept-specific external source in this release. Its cultural history is an editorial research lead, not a completed provenance claim.
- **Sources:** No external source assigned; editorial synthesis only.

### symbolic-and-divinatory

- **Claim layer:** symbolic-and-divinatory
- **Material context:** original-synthesis
- **Evidence state:** symbolic
- **Summary:** The Oracle uses Posthuman Condition as a reflective symbol, never as proof that its literal or causal claims are true.
- **Sources:** original-synthesis

## Oracle

- **Essence:** Within the Oracle, Posthuman Condition holds together the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif and continuity, forgetting, archives, testimony, and the stories that hold a self together. That combination creates both an interpretive tool and a responsibility.
- **Archetype:** the posthuman condition inner witness
- **Gift:** notice how continuity, forgetting, archives, testimony, and the stories that hold a self together change the choices that appeared available.
- **Shadow:** mistaking intensity, repetition, or belonging for independent verification.
- **Guidance:** Return from the scale of Posthuman Condition to one lived consequence of the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif. Repair that relationship before expanding the theory. Use this guidance where the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation; keep visible that memory can preserve personhood while also being edited, inherited, contested, or supplied by others.
- **Healing / integration:** Choose one claim linked to Posthuman Condition. List what supports it, weakens it, remains unknown, and still matters if it proves false. Review the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif through continuity, forgetting, archives, testimony, and the stories that hold a self together, remembering that the card changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation.
- **Question:** Where is the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif shaping the situation, and what would make the response more accountable? Answer by testing how the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation against continuity, forgetting, archives, testimony, and the stories that hold a self together.

## Meanings

### Psychological

As an interior archetype, the posthuman condition inner witness gathers the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif into a role a person may inhabit. Integration requires entering and leaving that role consciously. A grounded check for the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif is to compare recollection with records, other witnesses, missing intervals, and the cost of revision, especially where the pattern changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation.

### Social

Posthuman Condition coordinates people around the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif. That coordination can create care and shared purpose, or punish those who do not accept the same map. In shared life, the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif affects testimony, belonging, stigma, care, and the ability to coordinate reality. Test that specific the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif pattern by asking people to compare recollection with records, other witnesses, missing intervals, and the cost of revision.

### Spiritual

Posthuman Condition can become a threshold symbol: something is released, encountered, remembered, or promised. Integration returns the threshold to ordinary responsibility. In symbolic practice, the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif can be interpreted as opening, ordeal, initiation, illusion, or integration; keep in view that memory can preserve personhood while also being edited, inherited, contested, or supplied by others.

### Technological

Posthuman Condition can be read as an interface around the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif. Ask what enters, what changes, what exits, and who can interrupt the process. When the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif becomes a capability, it may be measured, induced, mediated, recorded, or misclassified by tools. Verify the implementation of the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif by asking participants to compare recollection with records, other witnesses, missing intervals, and the cost of revision.

### Political

The governance question is whether people affected by Posthuman Condition can inspect, challenge, revise, and leave the arrangement without catastrophic loss. When the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif becomes governance, it raises questions about credibility, autonomy, accommodation, and coercive interpretation. Make authority over the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif answerable by requiring decision-makers to compare recollection with records, other witnesses, missing intervals, and the cost of revision.

## Divination

- **Gift state:** Posthuman Condition supports movement when compare recollection with records, other witnesses, missing intervals, and the cost of revision. Let insight earn trust through method and consequence. The capacity within the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif is strongest when identity can continue without forcing every gap into a finished story, even as the pattern changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation.
- **Shadow state:** In shadow, the posthuman condition inner witness claims special exemption from ordinary care, evidence, or reciprocity. Return authority to shared review. To keep the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif from escalating, compare recollection with records, other witnesses, missing intervals, and the cost of revision, because the pattern changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation.
- **Threshold state:** Posthuman Condition enters a reading when lived and reported experience is being asked to carry more certainty than it can support. Restore the proper evidence boundary. Operationally, the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation; the reader should compare recollection with records, other witnesses, missing intervals, and the cost of revision.
- **Practical move:** Choose one claim linked to Posthuman Condition. List what supports it, weakens it, remains unknown, and still matters if it proves false. Review the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif through continuity, forgetting, archives, testimony, and the stories that hold a self together, remembering that the card changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation.

## Game and Story Function

- condition
- perception-filter
- consequence

**Story seed:** After Posthuman Condition changes the world, the first emergency is over but the old hierarchy remains. The protagonists must choose what not to rebuild. The world of the story must show how the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation and why memory can preserve personhood while also being edited, inherited, contested, or supplied by others.

## Relationships

- edge--assessed-through-shared-source-lens--sfoc-states-existential-dread--sfoc-states-posthuman-condition
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-states-panoramic-awareness--sfoc-states-posthuman-condition
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-states-posthuman-condition--sfoc-states-precognition
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-beings-android--sfoc-states-posthuman-condition
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-beings-hive-mind--sfoc-states-posthuman-condition
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-states-posthuman-condition--sfoc-technologies-mind-upload

## Visual Direction

Posthuman Condition visualized as the posthuman motif meeting the condition motif: a layered interior halo expressing a condition without diagnosing or literalizing a person. The art must be original, text-free, square, rounded-corner enamel with one immediately legible silhouette.

## Safety and Integration

Flags: lived-experience-without-causal-certification. Invite reflection and source comparison; do not diagnose, recruit, threaten, harass, or certify extraordinary claims.

## Sources and Research Notes

- Source IDs: iep-jung, original-synthesis
- Research note: Which earliest reliable source fixes the modern meaning of Posthuman Condition? Which communities use Posthuman Condition differently, and what changes across those contexts? What evidence would distinguish the leading literal explanations associated with Posthuman Condition?
