Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 38 No. 1, 2018.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.21464/fi38108
Philosophy of Future Cyberspaces and the Transhumanistic Reality
Nenad Vertovšek
orcid.org/0000-0001-8543-6580
; Stomorica 7, HR–23000 Zadar
Ivana Greguric
; Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Hrvatski studiji, Borongajska cesta 83d, HR–10000 Zagreb
Abstract
In times during which “the age of world picture” is being enhanced by digital reality, it is getting harder to think the Human Being’s role and position in time and space, but also the purpose of the existence of Human Being as we know it in contemporaneity. In the future time and space, human being’s perception, media mediation, and proprioception of the world will fundamentally change. If we label the cyberspace as a certain utopia of postmodern symbols, then the cyberspace is the foreshadowing of the World in which digital reality, cyborgs, (non)humanoid robots, and drones will define the level of nonhuman or Transhuman within us. Transhumanists propose that humanity ought to proactively enhance itself and steer its evolution via technology and science to create beings that will surpass us by intelligence. They also support the enhancement of nonhuman living beings and every future form of artificial intelligence, modified forms of life, and other species of intelligence that technological and scientific progress will reach. Such vision of human beings nullifies the idea of selfsufficiency and severs the thinking about traditional identity. The effects of enhancing human abilities provoke ethical questions, when exactly do artificially enhanced persons stop being a human, in what kind of space does it act, and who in fact is in the possession or control of information present deep inside our bodies.
Keywords
human being; drone; ethics; identity; cyberspace; cyborg; transhumanism
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Publication date:
2.4.2018.
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