Neuroscience and philosophy about the future of human nature

Valentin M. Knyazev, Andrey V. Belkin
Year: 2019
DOI:
UDK: 101.1+57
Pages: 94-110
Language: russian
Section: Philosophy
Keywords: logos of neuroscience, modes of methodology of neuroscience, philosophical-ontological, methodological and bioethical principles of philosophy of consciousness, holodynamics.
Abstract
The article explores the relationship between neuroscience and philosophy in studying future transformations of human nature. Under the influence of scientific and technological progress, the history of mankind accelerates its run exposing the innate natural qualities of man, his developed spiritual and personal identity to irreversible changes. Is there any hope for man in this situation to receive assistance from both the clinical practice of neuroscience and philosophy with its practices of spiritual therapy? Is it possible that with the trans-humanistic turn of neuroscience and philosophy to the path of the controlled evolution of man, the worst will happen: the existence of man would become his another form of existence in the body of a man-made cyborgs, and if the best happens human being will become another, more perfect form of his existence? The ambiguity of this trans-humanistic course of modern human evolution raises questions about the logos of neuroscience and the philosophical ethics of this logos.
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