2023/07/05 by Salvatore Spina, Spina, Salvatore
Arts and Humanities · Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Digital Games and Media #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) #Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life #Technology, Environment, Urban Planning
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2307.02590
openalex publication_date 2023/07/05 · openalex created_date 2023/07/08 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Computerization has created a digital ecological niche where humans live in a state of interconnection that modifies their Epigenetics. Within this hyper-datafied virtual space, the logged-in agent enhances their intellectual and rational abilities, giving rise to a new cognitive entity. Humans are evolving towards a new anthropological status that shifts the terms of the Digital History debate from History to the historian, compelling the latter to reflect on the positions of Fichte and Schelling regarding the mind-body-world relationship (ecological niche). This reflection leads to the possibility of overcoming the crisis of History imposed by presentism and the necessity of redefining the research methodology based on the new vision of the interconnection between the mind and the digital niche as an investigative tool.