Care as Separator of Human from Technology

I found the Heidegger excerpt from "Being and Time" on Dasein as care somewhat convoluted and hard to follow. After a little research into the Heideggerean concept of Dasein, I began to understand it as a being defined by temporality that exists with an acute awareness of that existence. Following a somewhat shaky understanding of this abstraction, it is interesting to read into Heidegger's assertion that Dasein "fills in the signification of the term 'care,' which is used in a purely ontologico-existential manner."

Heidegger determines that what gives unity to the existential structures of Dasein is revealed through the state of mind of anxiety. Furthermore, the unifying factor of anxiety is care. Care brings together the two seemingly conflicting modes of Being for Dasein: a being ahead-of-itself (future) already-in-the-world (present) and a being-alongside-others (past). Not only does this outline bring out the idea of individual identity vs. society that we have been studying so closely in class, but it also references the change in view of history and perception with new technology.

So, examining the idea of Dasein as care in the context of technology, it is apparent that the human exists in different states of history (future, present, and past) as well as different states of "oneness" (the individual already-in-the-world and the societial view of the being defined as a communal being, or a being-alongside-others). Heidegger's ideas, then, connect directly with the issues in technology that we have dissected in class. While the human could be defined as one being of Dasein, technology most certainly couldn't, considering its current inability to be aware of its own existence. Therefore, we see that the difference between humanity and technology, including the new technologies of artificial intelligence, will always be separated by Heidegger's definition of care. Personally, I agree with this interpretation of Heidegger's work, but I believe part of the reason that I feel this way is because technology has not yet surpassed the human intellect.