The author considers what he calls the post-metaphysical complex of the technosphere, for which the ontogenetic framework of classical metaphysics, from Aristotle to Hegel, is no longer valid. Instead, the question of the essence of the human posits his transcendence through the emergence of Homo kybernetes, thereby escaping the posthuman condition. To explain how the permeation of the human and the non-human appears in all areas of contemporary life as a network of information, feedback, control, and communication, it seems necessary to raise the question of the cyborgization of life itself. At the same time, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner’s analysis of transhumanism is stimulating for understanding what the digital age of the technosphere presupposes: the question of the possibilities of freedom beyond its metaphysical framework, as considered in Schelling’s speculative thinking. Instead of treating freedom as absolute, it is time to consider it an experiment of thought and action beyond human reduction and the anthropologies that have lost their credibility in the face of the complexity of Homo kybernetes.

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Homo Kybernetes from onto-Genesis to the Posthuman Condition

  • Źarko Paić

摘要

The author considers what he calls the post-metaphysical complex of the technosphere, for which the ontogenetic framework of classical metaphysics, from Aristotle to Hegel, is no longer valid. Instead, the question of the essence of the human posits his transcendence through the emergence of Homo kybernetes, thereby escaping the posthuman condition. To explain how the permeation of the human and the non-human appears in all areas of contemporary life as a network of information, feedback, control, and communication, it seems necessary to raise the question of the cyborgization of life itself. At the same time, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner’s analysis of transhumanism is stimulating for understanding what the digital age of the technosphere presupposes: the question of the possibilities of freedom beyond its metaphysical framework, as considered in Schelling’s speculative thinking. Instead of treating freedom as absolute, it is time to consider it an experiment of thought and action beyond human reduction and the anthropologies that have lost their credibility in the face of the complexity of Homo kybernetes.