Lecture Information:

Time: Nov. 2, 2023 (Thursday) 9:00-11:00 (Beijing Time)

Venue：Room 716, Yifu Teaching Building

Speaker:  Professor Cheng Sumei(Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences)

Moderator: Professor Tang Wenpei (School of Health Humanities, Peking University) 

Lecture Title: The Deep Interrogation of Human Nature by the Intelligent Revolution

Abstract:

The separation of man and nature opened the first process of "man, becoming man". Later, the process began around material civilization. When the deep development of the fourth technological revolution with artificial intelligence as the core makes contemporary people have to face the problems of the technicalization of the body and the technicalization of the spirit, we need to open the second process of "people, becoming people". This process is the process of deeply questioning human nature, so as to turn the old philosophical question of "what is man" into a practical one. Based on the challenges to human nature, such as artificial intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, and nanomedicine, this report illustrates the reality of opening the second process of "human, becoming human" and demonstrates the need to establish an ethics about the future of humanity.