When the Technological Singularity is more and more near, the human-machine interaction covers various merging processes. Yet, in the Digital Era, we have to deal with and manage an amazing plethora of different identities. This engages us in a discussion on the criteria of the identity and it leads us from ‘no entity without identity’ to ‘no identity without a process’. We also have to deal with the problem of what the “wisdom” is nowadays. In the last decades, we have continuously passed from …
Read moreWhen the Technological Singularity is more and more near, the human-machine interaction covers various merging processes. Yet, in the Digital Era, we have to deal with and manage an amazing plethora of different identities. This engages us in a discussion on the criteria of the identity and it leads us from ‘no entity without identity’ to ‘no identity without a process’. We also have to deal with the problem of what the “wisdom” is nowadays. In the last decades, we have continuously passed from the classical wisdom – word and face to face based, toward a multi-channelled, digital wisdom – a symbiotic, non-generic and non-unitary wisdom. The analysis of those merging processes and multi-faceted, processual identities engages us in the search for a classification of our “merged identities” in the Digital Era, toward identities that are continuously negotiated.