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2 years ago in Philosophy , Social Philosophy By Rohan
How are contemporary humans ontologically and culturally different from humans of the recent past?
I want to understand how philosophy explains this shift in human existence and whether technology and culture have changed our very way of being in the world.
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By Vishwaranjan Answered 1 year ago
From my academic and lived perspective, contemporary humans are not biologically new, but existentially transformed. What has changed most is our mode of being. Digital technology mediates how we think, relate, remember, and even perceive ourselves. Earlier humans were embedded primarily in local communities and direct experience, whereas modern individuals exist within constant global information flows. This reshapes identity, attention, privacy, and social bonds. Philosophically, this represents a shift in being-in-the-world, not evolution of the body but a reconfiguration of human existence itself—arguably one of the most profound transformations in human history.
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