Article

Name: The Negative Semiosis of Abhidharma and Self-Negation of Human

Authors: Sergey S. Avanesov

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

Abstract:

The anthropological heritage of world philosophy, including its eastern branch, can become one of the conceptual foundations for the humanitarian expertise of modern technological progress. The article analyzes the anthropological concept, which was formulated within the framework of the Buddhist Abhidharma tradition. The author shows how this concept raises and resolves issues that are characteristic of the modern era of “digitalization” of a person. It was found that the theory of the elements of the life stream, to which the personality is reduced, follows from the idea of the coincidence of the world and individual experience. At the same time, the connection of biographical events is provided not by ethical constants and guidelines, but by the automatic action of impersonal karma. It is shown that the images of being and the elements that produce these images are described in Buddhism as signs with zero reference. The stream of life as a negative semiosis opens up a place for the emptiness of non-existence – the inevitable finale of the process of consistent depersonalization of human existence. Thus, a program fixed in tradition is revealed that reveals the an-thropological consequences of digitalization. These consequences consist in the absolute self-negation of human.

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

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