Homo sapiens and the technologies of tomorrow – nature, language, culture and art.

The XR team will present the project outcomes during an international conference organized by The University of Humanities and Economics in Lodz. Details below:

Scientific conference: Homo sapiens and the technologies of tomorrow – nature, language, culture and art.

https://www.ahe.lodz.pl/dzialalnosc-naukowa/konferencje-naukowe/homosapiens-wobec-technologii

Date: 25-26 April, 2024

We are currently living in a time in which traditional ideas about what our role in the world is are constantly being re-evaluated. Phenomena such as posthumanism, transhumanism, genetic modification, artificial intelligence, and the digital revolution, which has accelerated rapidly in recent years, are forcing us to redefine the classic nature-culture opposition and other seemingly familiar concepts. What does it mean that we are rational subjects with cognitive capacities? Beings endowed with consciousness? Are individuals capable of making moral choices? And finally, creative individuals, creators of literature, art, and culture? Although Homo sapiens still sets the rules for other species, the Renaissance-Enlightenment anthropological paradigm that placed humans at the center of reality and made them the measure of all things is no longer the only possible option. This means that humans must, as it were, ask the question anew about who we are and redefine ourselves in the face of nature, culture, and ubiquitous technology. But are we ready to face the reality that is coming? Do our culture, literature, art, norms of behavior, the languages we communicate with, the way we think, and philosophical concepts give us the tools we need to understand it properly and be able to identify the potential opportunities and threats it presents? What is the place of nature and living organisms in the world of new technologies?

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Project Number: 2022-1-CY01-KA220-ADU-000086774