Philosophical and anthropological phenomenon Homo Digitalis as an ontological system «human – gadget»

Abstract

Total digitization has opened up many opportunities for modern human, created a new system of «human-world» relations: now any aspect of human life cannot be imagined without involvement in «digital». Everything we do is tied to a digital system in one way or another, and often in general. Thus, in the 21st century, a digital human, or Homo Digitalis, was formed – a fundamentally new type of Homo Sapiens, which coexists with digital devices and digital systems, has digital identification, whose life creativity takes place in several dimensions, including, to a large extent, in the virtual, whose quality and standard of living are significantly or completely dependent on the digital world. We believe that we have the right to put forward a hypothesis and claim that in the entire historical period of human existence, the neo-anthropus and his activities have never evolved so rapidly, changing the global lifestyle and its numerous individual factors, within the limits of not centuries, but several decades. Meanwhile, next to the unconditional numerous advantages and comfort, digitization has a reverse side – the person himself is fundamentally changing. Digital human, or Homo Digitalis, changes not only the way of life, the idea of cognitive and intellectual activity: Homo Digitalis makes numerous corrections to that human nature, which once, in the open conditions of the world, formed human and endowed him with Homo Sapiens properties. Thus, there appeared a Human whose being and life activities are largely determined by a digital device, a Human who became part of the ontological system «man-gadget». We call such a person a digital person, and in the philosophical and anthropological aspect – Homo Digitalis. The modern scientific community faces the tasks of socialization of the individual in the digital space and socialization of Homo Digitalis with well-established skills of digital existence in the ontological system «Man-gadget» with a minimum of life offline, in a physical dimension outside the virtual world. Digital man, or its anthropological synonym Homo Digitalis, is a relatively new phenomenon, but in Western science, where the digital revolution took place, his research began with the first awareness of a socio – historical turn. Unfortunately, there is very little reflection on the socio-cultural essence of Homo Digitalis and the difficulties of its humanitarization in accordance with the categorical imperative of morality.The aim of article is to investigate the essential foundations of Homo Digitalis as a philosophical and anthropological phenomenon in the ontological system «human-gadget». The subject of research . specifics of digital human existence metamodern.