| Title: | On dreams, human imagination, and technology |
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| Authors: | ID Škof, Lenart (Author) |
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| Files: |  URL - Source URL, visit https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14101249
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| Language: | English |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: |  ZRS Koper - Science and Research Centre Koper
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| Abstract: | In this paper, I reflect on human imagination, the intention of technology, and the future of humanity in the era of the Anthropocene. I begin by presenting the environmental crisis and declare a need to protect and safeguard nature. In the first part, I offer an explanation of a dream of an airliner and link it to the Bachelardian theory of aerial imagination and oneiric flight. I show how, today, technology has entered our lives profoundly and how it has become closely intertwined with us human beings. Based on this, the second part is dedicated to Martin Heidegger and his question concerning technology. By analyzing Heidegger’s seminal essay on technology, I argue for an alternative possibility of thinking about human artefacts (such as various tools or even an airliner) beyond them being merely a standing-reserve and thus rather as a mode of unconcealement. The third and last part of this essay is dedicated to Ilia Delio’s Teilhardian cosmic vision of the future of technological progress. Technology, for Delio, is a part of this cosmic narrative and human beings represent the thinking portion of the universe. I conclude with a thought on a new elemental consciousness and imagination, in which nature, its life force, and the most advanced technology, including AI, would become a part of a new panentheistic whole. |
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| Keywords: | elemental philosophy of religion, dreams, technology, anthropocene, Gaston Bachelard, Martin Heidegger, Teilhard de Chardin, Ilia Delio |
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| Article acceptance date: | 28.09.2023 |
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| Publication date: | 30.09.2023 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2023 |
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| Number of pages: | 9 str. |
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| Numbering: | Vol. 14, iss. 10, [article no.] 1249 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DiRROS-17153  |
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| UDC: | 2-1 |
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| ISSN on article: | 2077-1444 |
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| DOI: | 10.3390/rel14101249 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 167400707 |
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| Copyright: | © 2023 by the author |
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| Note: | Nasl. z nasl. zaslona;
Opis vira z dne 6. 10. 2023;
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| Publication date in DiRROS: | 06.10.2023 |
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