Abstract

When thinking about the future of humanity and our world of existence, one realizes that it is ridden with serious individual and planetary challenges that are produced by technologies, as they reconfigure the human person and his/her/its world structurally, psycho-physically, socially, and on the level of consciousness, mind, and spirit. As a result, the overall space of transindividuation is changed, and other-than-human forms of self-identification are fostered. Technology can produce beneficial or harmful effects, because, as Bernard Stiegler has shown, it has characteristics of the pharmakon. Consequently, it is of vital importance to ponder in what direction the process of technological reconfiguration should be channeled, where our current debate should head, and by what values we should be guided. Ethical questions are also important in the field of contemporary post- and transhuman explorations with their various ways of conceptualizing the human and understanding what “human,” “humanistic,” and “humane” mean. Accepting the evolutionary passage from human persons to different kinds of persons, I argue that a society consisting of various kinds of persons, not only humans, may be less inhuman and even more humane.