Superhumans: Superlanguage?

EasyChair Preprint 3200

Abstract

“Super-humans” is usually to be linked to Nietzsche or to Heidegger’s criticism to Nietzsche, or even to the ideology of Nazism. However, they can be properly underlain by philosophical and scientific anthropology as that biological species who will originate from humans eventually in the course of evolution.

There is a series of more or less well-established facts in anthropogenesis, which would be relevant to the philosophical question about the “super-humans”: bipedalism, cooling by sweating, specific hair or its lack, omnivorous-ness, thumb opposition and apposition, vocal system of speech production, human brain, long childhood; our species is evolutionary young (about 200 000 years old), but it is the last survived descendant being genetically exceptionally homogenous (<00,01% genetic differences) of the genus “homo” (about 6 000 000 old). All this generates a few main features of our population: society, technics, language, and mind, which guarantee the contemporary absolute domination of mankind.   

The society has reached a natural limitation of earth. The technics depends on how much energy is produced. The mind is restricted by its carrier, i.e. by the brain. Thus only the language seems to be the frontier of any future development inducing a much better use of the former three. The recent informational technologies suggest the same.

Language is defined as symbolic image of the world doubling it by an ideal or virtual world, which is fruitful for creativity and any modeling of the real world. Any “super-language” should transcend some of those definitive borders of language and be a generalization.The involving of infinity can extend the language.

Keyphrases: anthropogenesis, evolution and future of homo sapiens, hominization

@booklet{EasyChair:3200,
  author    = {Vasil Penchev},
  title     = {Superhumans: Superlanguage?},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 3200},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2020}}