Year: 2023
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: The paper considers the ontological and metaphysical specifics of the beginning of a unique global transition to a post-technogenic civilization, called the Macro-shift. All social, political, economic institutions and cultural practices are going through a crisis phase, and people’s worldview and values are radically changing. Ethics becomes the main behavioral parameter of order, as it always happened in the era of trials, and the revival of the tradition of inner life is almost the only factor in human adaptation to external chaos, without loss of human appearance. The metaphysics of the Macro-shift, which distinguishes it from the previous crisis epochs, is connected not only with the general planetary character, but, first of all, with the completion of the pre-singular development of human history. The demographic planetary singularity is already being overcome by slowing the growth of the number of people. We acutely feel other forms of singularity as the acceleration of all processes in all forms of social, cultural, economic and informational life, immersing us in a super-complex reality. The singularity itself, when the multithousand- year-old laws of the development of the socio-technoanthroposphere should change, falls in the middle of the XXI century and has no analogues in past history. This does not allow us to build predictive models of the future, creating a time of hyperdeterminacy. It turned out that the singularity coincides with the stage of completion of the historical cycle of the development of human cognitive abilities. It is also shown that Artificial Intelligence is not only a catalyst for ultrafast changes, but also a possible tool for passing the super-complex singular phase of the Macro-shift. The genesis of the phenomena of digitalization and AI as the results of the co-evolution of natural, social, virtual and technical umwelts in the process of successive information revolutions is considered. In this connection, the problem of existential challenges in the anthroposphere, the problem of demarcation of the areas of responsibility of natural and artificial intelligence, the problem of post-critical rationality and the coexistence of human-machine hybrid forms of life is raised.
DOI: 10.29039/vgb-76-157
Author: Vladimir Budanov
Institutions: Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4390470575