ON TRANSHUMANIZATION OF MIND IN RUSSIA AND THE WEST

Abstract

In the proposed article we will touch on the problem of transhumanization of culture in view of what could be named the transhumanization of language and mind. Under the latter we understand the progressive involution of language as a semantic field, a field of abstract 'excessiveness' of culture as it is inscribed in forms of thought and interpersonal interaction. Following the cybernetic imperative, the transhumanization of language and, consequently, of mind and subjectivity, reduces the language to a means of transmission of information, while cutting all the 'unnecessary' off it and making the question regarding the essence of subjectivity extremely acute and relevant. A comparative epistemological analysis of Russian and Western cybernetics and their corresponding trajectories of cultural transhumanization, elicits different nature and essence of these two ontologemes, which allows us to draw more complex conclusions concerning the transhumanistic reality on opposite sides of the civilizational barricades. Ontologically bridging between the pre-Revolutionary philosophy of Russian self-determination, Russian cosmism and Russian cybernetics allows us to understand why transhumanism has not been invented in Russia and cannot become its new Idea.