Open AccessDe-Creation of Creation, or A New Level of Culture in the Development of homo
Author(s) -
Wolfgang Sassin
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the beacon: journal for studying ideologies and mental dimensions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2713-1890
pISSN - 2713-1882
DOI - 10.55269/thebeacon.2.020510203
Subject(s) - realm , civilization , homo sapiens , space (punctuation) , environmental ethics , order (exchange) , modernization theory , sociology , political science , business , computer science , anthropology , law , philosophy , finance , operating system
The public discussion at the beginning of the twenty-first century reveals much about a supposed conflict with nature, about the motives behind the vehemently demanded change of the industrial civilisation and about the dawning of a new world of the digital era. Together they touch the very basis of a complex civilisation supporting nearly eight billion people at the price of a fundamentally changed “creation.” Ongoing efforts to overcome all spatial and temporal distances, thereby dissolving existing orders in space and time and populating the world with Artificial Intelligence, raise the question whether homo sapiens is aiming to occupy the realm of gods, if not of the One and Only in order to guarantee the survival of human kind.