At the Border of the Human or on the Edge of the Abyss of Nothingness. Moral Reflections on the Future of the Human Being, in the Digital World Cover Image

La granița umanului sau pe marginea prăpastiei neantului. Reflecții morale asupra viitorului ființei umane, în lumea digitală
At the Border of the Human or on the Edge of the Abyss of Nothingness. Moral Reflections on the Future of the Human Being, in the Digital World

Author(s): Ioan C. Teşu
Subject(s): Theology and Religion, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Editura Doxologia
Keywords: Digital technology; transhumanism; human augmentation; Christian morality; digital etics;

Summary/Abstract: The study analises some of the effects produced by the transhumanist ideology on life and on human beings. Alongside the unprecedented digital progress, brains from Silicon Valley take into consideration the augumentation of human beings, firstly through implants and finally through the fusion between AI and humans. The author emphasizes the Christian conception according to which technology, on its own, it is neither good, nor bad, but neutral. It is up us to give it a meaning, thus being either an instrument which promotes life and moral values, or a selfish dimension. The author centres the emphasis on a wiser and evolved spiritual approach on the matter of thechnology, thus offering the reader a perspective on rediscovering the profound human values and a premise of using technology in a more purposeful and beneficial manner.

  • Issue Year: XCVI/2020
  • Issue No: 9-12
  • Page Range: 41-56
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Romanian