Perspectives of Anthropocentrism in the Optics of the Digital Age

Abstract

The article discusses the prospects for using the concept of “thinking together-with-complexity” as a tool for forming the prerequisites for a critical dialogue with the post-anthropocentric philosophy of post-humanism of the digital age. This is the central problem of philosophical understanding of the phenomenon of man in the era of the Anthropocene, which is becoming artificial intelligence, the world of co-evolving neuromorphic networks. One of the “entry points” to the understanding of thinking-together-with-complexity is the concept of E. Moren’s complexity paradigm, as well as focusing on Deleuze’s key idea; The idea of the need to “think in the between”. Another entry point is Spencer-Brown’s Laws of Form. And,
finally, the third entry point is the philosophy of G. Simondon, which focuses on the principle of individuation of beings, overcoming the binary hyleomorphism of matter and form of Aristotle and interpreting individuation as an ontogenetic, form-creating process of becoming unfolding between pre-individual and transindividual. It is emphasized that thinking together-with-complexity is a procedural, non-reductionist, recursive-temporal thinking “between” order and chaos, subject and object, mechanical and organic, system and its surroundings (environment), between network and hierarchy, between being and becoming, conscious and unconscious, observer and observed, as well as between simplification and complication. This is thinking of open post-classical rationality (Vyacheslav S. Stepin): it is focused on abductive search, thought experiment, contact with the Other, construction of means of dialogical connection between different conceptual perspectives and it is important to emphasize, connection as a process of unlimited semiosis according to Peirce.