Philosophical and anthropological dimension of the information and communication society

Abstract

At the current stage of human development, information and communication technologies are becoming of decisive importance, radically transforming the ontological foundations of human existence.There is an urgent need for a philosophical and anthropological understanding of how digital reality reformats fundamental categories of subjectivity, identity, and free will. The purpose of the article is a philosophical and anthropological analysis of the transformations of human existence in the conditions of an information and communication society. The research methodology is based on a set of interrelated and complementary philosophical and general scientific methods of cognition. Conclusions and prospects for further research. The article substantiates that the information and communication society is fundamentally changing the architectonics of human existence, transforming digital reality from an instrumental sphere into the ontological foundation of modern civilization.It is argued that the main anthropological risk of this transformation is the gradual loss of subjectivity due to the blurring of the boundaries between the individual's own will and the algorithmic prescriptions of the network environment. A person finds himself in a situation of "soft determinism", where free will is leveled by predictive systems that narrow the space of authentic choice to the limits of consumer or ideological templates, depriving the individual of the ability to deep existential reflection. It is proven that overcoming the identity crisis in the conditions of total digitalization is possible only through the actualization of a philosophical and anthropological approach that asserts the priority of human autonomy over technological expediency. It is concluded that preserving the "human in a person" requires the formation of a new digital ethics and culture of thinking, based on the subject's ability to distance themselves from algorithmic noise. Prospects for developing a new humanitarian paradigm that would meet the challenges of the "post-human" era are identified.