Meanings in the Digital Age. Homo Singularity

The paper approaches the techno-humanitarian balance of physical (accelerating) and humanitarian (controlling) technologies. It demonstrates that the absence of the human in this ba­lance makes the idea about ensuring the socio-system’s sustainable development through the establishment of techno-humanitarian balance erroneous. The required adequate proportion of “powers” between the technologies in the techno-humanitarian balance necessitates the civilization to attempt to “harness” not only the technological singularity but the humanitarian singularity, too. It is shown that the techno-humanitarian balance in the singularity mode destroys the human physical and mental nature. The human is introduced into the binary technological balance through transforming it into a triple balance and adding the semantic technologies inherent to human beings. The triple balance is characterized by the oppositions between intelligence and thinking, information and meanings. The paper explores the triple balance and its edges in the context of the ultimate singularity. It is shown that the human being, through thinking and meanings, can correlate themselves with the semantic singularity (the infinity of the semantic field) — thus becoming Homo Singularity. These conclusions are substantiated through the V.V. Nalimov’s probabilistic model of consciousess, which also mathe­matically formalizes the process of semantic decapsulation of the personality and the personal interaction with the semantic vacuum (infinity).

The paper introduces the concept of finite dilatation of the cultural semantic field and the big semantic transition as the era of formation of Homo Singula­rity and beginning of their practical work with semantic infinity. The paper provides examples of such practical work in the fields of art and science. Homo Singularity not only prevents their physical and mental nature from destruction but also keeps the po­werful artificial intelligence under control by counte­ring big data with their ability to integrate the multiple into the single (whole) and make a transition from the discrete level of information to a continuous (infinite) level of meanings.

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