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Material Cultures and Moral Mediators in Human Hybridization

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  • Lorenzo Magnani

    (University of Pavia, Italy)

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We already are hybrid humans, fruit of a kind of co-evolution of both our brains and the common, scientific, social, and moral knowledge we have produced by ourselves starting from the birth of material culture with our ancestors until the recent effects generated by the whole field of technological artifacts and of information and communication technologies (ICTs). We all are “constitutively” natural-born cyborgs, that is biotechnological hybrid minds. Our minds should not be considered to be located only in the head: human beings have solved their problems of survival and reproduction, “distributing” cognitive and ethical functions to external nonbiological sources, props, and aids, which originate cultures. The paper also illustrates the interplay between cultures and distributed cognition and stresses the role of some technological artifacts as moral mediators. The second part of the paper is related to the analysis of the interplay between cultures, morality, and cognition and of some consequences concerning the problem of intercultural communication in the light of the role of moral mediators, docility, and cyberprivacy. Finally, I discuss some suggestions concerning the problem of what I call the moral principle of isolation of cultures, with respect to the effects of ICTs.

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  • Lorenzo Magnani, 2010. "Material Cultures and Moral Mediators in Human Hybridization," International Journal of Technoethics (IJT), IGI Global, vol. 1(1), pages 1-19, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jt0000:v:1:y:2010:i:1:p:1-19
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