Dystopia of Transhumanism in the Context of General Eschatology

Abstract

They analyzed the socio-anthropological essence of nano-, bio-, info-, cogno- (NBIC) convergence process and the concept of transhumanism. The general contours of the “ideal”, transhuman, convergent-technological future are examined on the basis of the concept of “general eschatology”, which made it possible to justify the presence of humanitarian threats and risks, their prolongation from the present to the future and dystopic deepening in the convergent process of "trans-transition". Dystopic trends with the opportunity to be implemented in practice are the following ones: loss of individual uniqueness; fading of the moral principle; technological inequality and socio-stratification polarization; social manageability based on interference in human nature; consequences of total control over consciousness in the field of rights and freedoms. The eschatological approach reveals the essential difference between the concepts of “humanism” and “transhumanism” in terms of human values: the preservation of the human in a person or its overcoming through NBIC- “reformatting” of a person. The dominance of the managerial approach in the organization of science affects the process of scientific activity self-organization, transforms the natural convergence process of sciences and technologies, giving rise to moral, financial, and corporate deviations. Technological opportunities produced by the modern era testify to the multivariance of prognostic vision forms of the future, the relevance of the philosophical, methodological, humanitarian examination of “breakthrough technologies” to preserve humanity.