Article

Name: Ethics and Automation: The Negative Semiosis as a Digitalization Paradigm

Authors: Sergey S. Avanesov

Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University, Veliky Novgorod, Russian Federation

Abstract:

The article explores one of the humanitarian aspects of the development of digital technologies. The author finds out what happens to a person when he is forced to rebuild his understanding of the world and himself in the conditions of digitalization of existence. It is argued that the introduction of technological innovations starts the process of transition from the ethical organization of action to the automatic regulation of behavior, which ultimately means the depersonalization of a person. The author shows that the conceptual basis for the inevitability of such a process can be found in the literature of the Buddhist Abhidharma, primarily in the metaphysical numerology of Vaibhāṣika. The modern humanitarian situation has the following characteristic features: (1) encapsulation of existence, (2) virtualization of the life world, (3) unifying adaptation, (4) procedural-atomic analysis, (5) zero degree of corporeality, (6) negative semiosis. These characteristics allow us to interpret what happens to a person in the era of his “digitalization” through the conceptual apparatus of Buddhist philosophical anthropology.

Keywords: philosophical anthropology, digitalization, Buddhism, Abhidharma, negative semiosis, depersonalization

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