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FROM HOMO SAPIENS TO POST HOMO. THE HUMAN BEING ON THE ROAD OF ACCELERATED CHANGES OF IDENTITY – HUMANITY. INDEX OF QUESTIONS
Jan SZMYD1
Transformations of Man and Society: Ideas, Perspectives
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015, Publication date: 4 May 2015
Keywords: man, humanity, human era, post-human era,post-human man, anthropologic transformation
Abstract The main thesis of this paper: The human being in the context of modern technical and information civilization is deeply submitted into accelereted changes of his kind, in evolutionary human metamorphose, e.g. he is a subject of thorough a changing as mankind; changing of his nature essence and humanity. A lot of current cognitive data indicates a main long-standing direction of that anthropological transformation. The „post modern man” has been changing his identity not only to the side of profoundly alternated form, but, probably, to some total different man as we know him up to today the side of a particular p o s t – h u m a n b e i n g. In the future that direction of qualitative changes of homo sapiens will be in some measure real and confirmed in an evolutionary process it would means that human kind is passing from the h u m a n e r a to the p o s t h u m a n e r a. It could also mean the emergence on the place of human being – as a result of civilizational, social and technical evolution – a quite different post homo s u c c e s s o r.
Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny, Kraków
E-mail: janszmyd@interia.pl