Human and Nature in the Conditions of Modern Technological Systems: Environmental and Ethical Aspects

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10.2991/cesses-19.2019.287How to use a DOI?

Keywords

convergent technologies; sixth and seventh techno-economic paradigm; human and natural ecology; eco- and bioethics; methodology; dialogue; heuristics; poetry; transhumanism; post-humanism; post-human

Abstract

NBIC (nano-, bio, informational technologies and cognitive sciences) convergence, being the basis of sixth techno-economic paradigm, could contribute to the improvement of certain organs and functions of the human body only in some moments and could be useful in environmental renovation. There is a serious danger for the humans to lose their own nature and existence due to the absolute priority given to the artificial component together with underestimation of the spiritual, personal component. Also the above lost is possible due to the appearance of qualitatively new factors of destruction of the natural and cultural environment. The research is required of the risks essence, of threats and dangers that loom up all living things and first of all — the mankind. The social and humanitarian components of NBICS technologies, which are the basis of the seventh techno-economic paradigm, should to be supplemented with communicative technologies and non-technological components: methodology, dialogue, heuristics, which are developed in science and philosophy. Also they should be filled in with poetics and living human accompaniment. Ethics control by the individual and the collective subject must be congruent with not only the ethics of technology, but also with bioethics and ecology of culture. To prevent environmental catastrophe, the particular importance takes biopolitics, as well as moral eco- and bio-responsibility — as a response to the right of others to live. Our responsibilities are determined in accordance with the rights of the Other Living and connatural Diverse.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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