Philosophy of Future Cyberspaces and the Transhumanistic Reality Cover Image

Filozofija budućih kiberprostora i transhumanistička stvarnost
Philosophy of Future Cyberspaces and the Transhumanistic Reality

Author(s): Nenad Vertovšek, Ivana Greguric
Subject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo
Keywords: human being; drone; ethics; identity; cyberspace; cyborg; transhumanism;

Summary/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 self-sufficiency 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.

  • Issue Year: 38/2018
  • Issue No: 01/149
  • Page Range: 99-116
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Croatian