THE ECOCRATIC TURN OFMAN-ENVIRONMENT-ORGANISMTRANSHUMANIST ANDPOSTHUMANIST CONSIDERATIONS

Abstract

Transhumanism is an emerging perspective of the post-postmodern epoch of the Anthropocene. This paper deconstructs the term Transhumanism based on the human ecological model of the Man-Environment-Organism (M-E-O) co-ontological model, which demonstrates that the borders of adapting human beings were extended by technological, memetic, and social means beyond its own physical „surface” from the beginning. On the scale of human activity from the pure individual actions through its extensions up to suprahuman structures like AI, big data-based heuristics and decision systems, and autonomic military robots, we can make a distinction between transhumanism and posthumanism based on the locus of control. In the highly complex web of interacting factors in the present environmental crisis, we must include AI analysis and big data-based decision systems in the diagnosis and treatment and the new normality shape „environmentally friendly” human behavior. It needs a shift from present infocratic dominance over the society towards an ecocratic one. We have to optimize this shift by keeping the control on the human side.