Do we wake up or do we go for “compulsory reform”?

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Man is the measure of all things, is an excerpt from a phrase by the Greek sophist Protagoras, also supported by Heraclitus, recognizing that knowledge can be altered thanks to the changing circumstances of human perception. These concepts defend relativism and subjectivity, that is, each person constructs his own truth, a line of thought defended by part of the social sciences in the face of the total social phenomenon. With this idea, we want to try to understand how far Man wants to go in an attempt to overcome the purposes of human creation (to go beyond humanity itself). The idea is to “take” the human species from homo faber, who was only concerned with the manufacture of things, to homo Demiurge, who tries to equal himself to God in terms of capabilities, when assisted by Artificial Intelligence.

Using Western periodization, we find Man in prehistory, which covers the events that occurred from the emergence of the Earth until 3200 BC or the 4th millennium. The second major period of Western periodization is history. This historical period begins with the discovery of writing or the discovery of iron, in 3200/3600 BC. This period includes the following phases: Antiquity, which is classified as Eastern, marked by the development of Eastern civilizations, mainly in the valleys of the great rivers; and Classical or Western, represented by Greece and Rome. This major period of history extends from the discovery of Iron until the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD. Middle Ages, this historical period, which can also be called the Medieval Age, begins in 476 AD and ends in 1453 AD, the date of the capture of Constantinople or Byzantium by the Ottoman Turks. The Modern Age begins in 1453 and continues until the French Revolution in 1789, thus marking the beginning of the Contemporary Age. The Contemporary Age, from the French Revolution to the present day. In this visit to time, the period that interests us is the modern age, where we immediately come across the ideas of the Enlightenment, with the publication of René Descartes' discourse on the method in 1637, where he discredits everything unless there is a well-founded reason to accept it, thus presenting the famous cogito ergo sum (I think, therefore I am).

To reach the Man of our days, we are interested in modernity philosophically, which is a triple emancipation: Emancipation from God through reason; emancipation from nature through science; and finally, emancipation from strong powers (absolutism) through Democracy. So, this was the proposal for modernity. With the failure of the modernity project, a new era emerges, post-modernity, which will criticize the values ​​or the proposal of modernity that was not fulfilled as proposed. For example, we had the advance of science without conscience (the production of the atomic bomb); the emergence of democracy brought other presidents who were more bellicose than those of the past. It is at this moment that new ideas for improving the human species begin to emerge. We look at sociobiology with the aim of understanding how genetics and evolution influence social behavior, highlighting that the well-being of society involved the sterilization of all men; We also see Eugenics, which involves the production of a perfect being capable of everything good and the best. These are some attempts by Man to go beyond what are human capacities or human purpose.

As time goes by, we witness other human dimensions such as: the Anthropocene, which is characterized by the significant impact of human activity on natural systems, as we can take the example of the South African athlete Oscar Pistorius who is able to compete on an equal footing with other athletes; Transhumanism, an intellectual and cultural movement that affirms the possibility and desires to profoundly improve the human condition through reason, developing and making available technologies to eliminate aging and to significantly increase human intellectual, physical and psychological capacities, trying to overcome human limitations (a human being who does not get sick, does not age and has eternal life); posthumanism, which tries to improve the human condition through the use of technology, as it is possible to confuse the human body and mind, allowing the human being to transcend current limitations.

Given all these claims to achieve human perfection with genetically modified and biologically altered beings, what will be the main objective? Or rather, where are we going? What is the primary objective? These and other questions make us realize that there will be the idea of ​​creating a Man with divine capabilities (Man God).

With the adoption of Artificial Intelligence, I would like to know what will happen to those countries that do not embrace scientific advancement. Some say that since the emergence of Man there has never been such a difference between societies as today, some walking very well towards post-humanism, other societies moving backwards, as a consequence of this there may be a kind of 'compulsory reform' as happened with the troika (the little face pulled by three horses), where those with the manufacture of automobiles were put aside without being asked whether they wanted to continue working or not, they simply became outdated. A process that began with the Industrial Revolution, in which with the advent of machines in the manufacture of various tools, Man lost some of the labor space.

One of the biggest fears is that those on top (first world) will start inventing concepts to relegate those who do not embrace technological advancement to the background, as happened when the concepts of race were created and denigrated, for example, where the first was transferred from Zoology to humanity in order to show the supremacy of one human species in relation to others, and the second, when used to show the inferiority of black people in relation to the “Mulungo” (white), means that the latter would be lowering the status of black people. These are some traits of many, in an attempt to elevate themselves in relation to others, but in this specific case, will it be due to their hard work or due to the “laziness” of some in learning, apprehending and competing with the best? Not because they were born better or are gifted than others, but because they constantly develop and train.

Universities are no longer the places where science is produced par excellence, not that they are the spaces that have a monopoly on the production of science, because any citizen can do science anywhere in the world. There are several inventions that do not go through the University, with the aim of improving human life (the main objective of science). There is a need to return universities to the place where science is produced, in order to somehow try to advance and shorten the gap in relation to those who are making great strides in today's world dominated by science and technology.

2025/12/3