FROM SCIENCE TO BIOTECHNOSCIENCE (About the meaning of the shift)
Sergey Alevtinovich Smirnov
Institute of Philosophy and Law, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
Keywords: science, technoscience, biotechnoscience, ontological attitude, human enhancement, knowledge, engineering
Abstract
The article analyzes the shift that science is currently experiencing as a field of activity and an institution. It is concluded that there is a shift from science to technoscience or, more precisely, to biotechnoscience. This shift means a change in the basic setting. In the scientific paradigm, it was allowed to set on the knowledge of the world and the immutability of man as the subject of knowledge. In the techno-scientific paradigm, it is assumed that the world and man should be designed and changed to suit the engineering tasks of transformation. Man, as the main subject of change, should in principle be transformed and enhanced. The principle of human enhancement with the help of modern smart technologies is introduced. During shifting from science to technoscience, the boundary between science, culture, power and society becomes blurred and hybrid forms emerge, in which the production of new forms of life, including a new human project, becomes the basic process. In these hybrid forms, scientific knowledge ceases to be a purely epistemological unit, but integrates into large engineering projects.
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