E-LOGOS 2023, 30(2):4-55 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.499

Once More about Human Nature, Enhancement and Substitution

Robert Burgan

Ľudské zdokonaľovanie v širokom slova zmysle, t. j. individuálnom aj sociálnom, si vyžaduje čo najpresnejšie vymedzenie ľudskej prirodzenosti, povahy alebo podstaty, pretože len na jeho základe je možné, či už na individuálnej, alebo kolektívnej rovine, rozhodnúť o tom, ktoré zásahy do jednotlivca a society sú užitočné a prospešné a ktoré, naopak, škodlivé a nebezpečné s ohľadom na ich krátkodobé a najmä dlhodobé záujmy. Problém diskutujeme s ohľadom na sériu dôležitých príspevkov v slovenskom časopise Filozofia, o ktorých, až na niekoľko výnimiek, možno súhrnne tvrdiť, že sa k naplneniu uvedeného epistemického cieľa z rôznych dôvodov od roku 2014 ani len nepriblížili.

Keywords: ľudská prirodzenosť, ľudské zdokonaľovanie, substitúcia človeka, ľudská a všeobecná inteligencia, umelá inteligencia, superinteligencia a technologická singularita

Human enhancement in the broad sense, i.e. both individual and social, requires the most accurate definition of human nature, character or essence, because only on its basis it is possible, whether at an individual or collective level, to decide which interventions into the individual, community and society are useful and beneficial and which, on the contrary, harmful and dangerous with regard to their short-term and especially long-term interests. We discuss this problem with regard to a series of important research articles published in the Slovak academic journal Filozofia, that with a few exceptions, for various reasons, have not even come close to fulfilling the stated epistemic goal since 2014.

Keywords: human nature, human enhancement, human substitution, human and general intelligence, artificial intelligence, superintelligence and technological singularity

Received: October 15, 2023; Revised: October 15, 2023; Accepted: December 15, 2023; Prepublished online: December 28, 2023; Published: December 31, 2023  Show citation

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