Human in the new, biotechnocybernetic, “theater” of being

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to understand the impact of Android implementation on a person, social relations\nand sociocultural communications of changes occurring in society and culture. Understanding androids as new,\n“advanced” dolls, allows us to use the concept of “puppet theater of life” as a research strategy. This concept\nis a part of a broader concept of theatricality of socio-communicative manifestations of culture. Comparison\nof social life with a puppet theater, where people are puppets created and controlled by gods, Destiny, etc., has\na long tradition in philosophical thought since antiquity. It has been shown that this mythology gives rise to a\ndouble world perception: 1) it reflects the person’s perception of himself as a puppet in the “theater” of life; 2)\nwhen making dolls, man himself becomes like the Creator. This perception of the world has been preserved and\ncompleted in modern culture. Feeling like a puppet in the “theater” of life does not prevent a person from being\nat the same time a spectator in this “theater”, his critic, and – most importantly – his interpreter. The emergence\nof new “dolls” –androids –contributes to the formation of a new, biotechnocybernetic, “puppet theater” of being.\nIn this theater, androids are similar to puppets in their functions, only the control system of these “puppets”\nis more complex. This system has complicated gradually. As a result, robots of new generations are created\nconsistently – industrial robots, robots with feelings (with various sensors), robots with artificial intelligence.\nFeatures of all these generations embodied in androids form a new set design, drama and semantic content of\nthe “theater” of life. Now this “theater” sets new formats of social relations and communications, necessitates\nthe determination of new values and norms, makes us think about the future role of human in the new naturalartificial\nreality. In this “theater” a person finds additional opportunities for knowing himself, nature and the\nessence of his being in the world.