ON THE HUMAN CONTROL OF THE WORLD ACCORDING TO SCIENCE IN THE PRESENTTECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY
ON THE HUMAN CONTROL OF THE WORLD ACCORDING TO SCIENCE IN THE PRESENTTECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Summary/Abstract: In today‘s context, the title implies taking the pandemic as the proof of the weak/at least disputable capacity of humans to control the world. However, as the pandemic as such is not a simple biological phenomenon but a social-biological one, so the above implication is false because the humans do not constitute a homogenous entity in front of nature/the pandemic. The multiple social divisions explain both that the responsibility for the creation of the pandemic is not the same for all humans (and was not, even much before the pandemic), and that the consequences of the pandemic are not equally endured by all (and they have never been, even much before the pandemic), and nor is the problem of control of the world tackled in the same manner by all. Actually, the paper only sketches an investigation of the human control of the world rather echoing the coexistence of human brittleness with the societal conditions that weaken or strengthen/even create it. The reason of this sketch is that the control is the intentional aspect of human activities –and for humans this intentional aspect is related to values, and not only to adaptations made by the ―machine structure of life itself –and thus the direct results of the human intentions can be confronted with their broader and indirect consequences. And, because this relationship is mediated by knowledge, more precisely by science, the contradictions between various types of intentions and the present visible results of their consequent actions deny the festive image from different origins about the incontestable progress in the human control of the world. In this sense, the point is that fragmented advances in science and technology –regardless of the general use of their application –do not converge towards unitary, coherent and effective control of the world and even less towards human control. The capacity to control the world and the state of fragility of humans are mutual criteria, insomuch as they depend on the class and community membership of the individual. The dialectic of the individual‘s-community‘s-species‘ control in the world is highlighted. What does control mean –much beyond the well-known discussions about the original meanings of (the word) cybernetics –and what does human control mean are questions that the paper only opens.If some aspects of the style could suggest a ―manifesto highlighting a rough attitude towards the correlations analysed by the scientific research of the human-nature and human-human relationships it is because of the moment of world emergency challenging the solving of the contradictions which are not new but have entered the phase of uncontrollable storm. Generally, all the manifestos were based on the authors‘ belief that they responded to unique moments in the human history. The present article, contributing to the scientific demonstrations about the above relationships and the conditions of solving them, shows one of the conclusions of these demonstrations as feature of the present moment: that there is no longer time and space for further deploying the cognitive and social model that does not control the world emergency.

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