Evolution of Anthropological Profiles, Risks and Scenarios of Civilizational Transit

Abstract

The article presents the author’s approach to constructing a methodology for fore­casting and evaluating the development of anthropological profiles, human consti­tutions depending on changes in the complex living environment of a person (nature, society, technology, virtual reality). The proposed methodology is based on the concepts of quantum-synergetic anthropology and the author’s method of civilizational umwelt analysis. The processes of transferring human intellectual competencies using AI to various umvelts through a network digital matrix of cy­ber-umvelts, primarily umvelts of technology and virtual reality, are discussed. In the new cyber society, man is already becoming only one of the “intelligent” actors, new forms of hybrid culture and anthropological profiles of generalized physicality are emerging. So, digital painting of neural networks is being sold at expensive auctions, and autonomous intelligent assistants or a unique ChatGPT project are already able to create scientific reviews and even theses of quite satis­factory quality, although not shining with originality. The fundamental question is the prospects for the development of generalized physicality in hybrid systems, from digital drug addiction in virtual worlds of pleasure, to synergistic coopera­tion between humans and AI in scientific creativity. Turning to the near-term per­spective of digital societies, three clusters of their development are identified: the path of China’s social rating, inclusive capitalism of the West, and the project of a harmonious multipolar world. The latter project is just being formed and has a culturocentric nature of the ethics of cooperation, and not a crowd-elitist techno­cratic one. Today, the problem of choosing between the prospects of network di­gital democracy, digital totalitarianism, alarmism, digital religion or the harmo­nization of hybrid digital reality is in full growth.