Luciana Zaterka
Philosopher and chemist, associate professor of Modern Philosophy at UFABC, master's and doctorate from USP, with postdoctoral degrees from PUC-SP and UFPR. Researches the relationship between science, technology and the human condition, from modern philosophers to transhumanism.
Between Humans and Machines: A Philosophical Perspective on the Human Condition
For thousands of years, we believed that there was something like a human nature: a stable given, prior to our choices and interventions. Today this assumption has become difficult to sustain. Artificial intelligence, psychopharmaceuticals, prosthetics, genetic engineering and digital technologies already participate in what we are. At the same time, we attribute voice, personality and intention to machines and create bonds with them that we previously reserved only for humans. Those who talk to an AI every day, at work or in life, already inhabit this frontier without realizing it. In light of this, this talk proposes an exchange of questions: instead of asking whether technology will make us less human, perhaps it is time to ask what conception of humanity still makes sense to preserve. With philosophy as a privileged instrument for reading the present, Luciana Zaterka shows that this is not an abstract question, but rather the most practical of all: only those who know what they want to preserve of the human can decide well about the future. A philosophical pause to think, with depth and without nostalgia, about the futures we are building.