Entre la celebración y el rechazo la incidencia de la tecnociencia en la conceptualización de lo humano

Abstract

Review

Technological advances continuously and progressively modify our psychophysical corporeity, as well as the environments of the world of life. Despite the diffusion that these types of changes have taken, it is assumed that we will continue to be what we are.
Our theoretical concern, on the other hand, results from the perplexity at the suspicion that our human constitution can be radically modified in genomic terms, without us having even remotely thought about the meaning and scope of this transformation. In this regard, we intend to offer, provisionally, an interpretive guide through the presentation of different topics that highlight a certain characterization of the human that, we conjecture, has led to the deployment of such possibilities. In short, what it is about is updating the philosophical question par excellence: what kind of creature are we that, among our possibilities, it is up to us by our own action to stop being what we are, humans, as we have been conceiving ourselves? A question that must be adapted to the situation we are going through, that of an evolution directed by technoscience, that is, by ourselves, even when this leads us to think of ourselves from a post-human stage.