TRANSFORMATION OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE OF A PERSON IN DIGITAL SOCIETY: POSSIBLE SCENARIOS
Authors: LUKIN ANATOLY N. , DOMRACHEV SERGEY S. 
Published: February 2025

We are witnessing the rapid development of digital technologies that are reformatting all social life. Many modern experts are trying to predict the consequences of the digitalization of society, the increasing use of artificial intelligence in the economy, science, social sphere, in military practice and in geopolitics. We should be no less interested in the spiritual consequences of the changes taking place. It is the spiritual dimension of man that has at all times constituted the most significant part of the subject area of philosophy. The article presents an analysis of the possible transformation of the spiritual and moral life of a person forming a digital society. Society, being a complexly organized dissipative system, periodically goes through a bifurcation state, undergoing qualitative changes. The spiritual sphere, although interconnected with other spheres of life, is not strictly determined by the latter. With all the diversity of individual spiritual and moral interpretations of the meaning of human existence and the uniqueness of human existence, in the history of mankind there are spiritual value complexes that can be conditionally reduced to several main types, each of which has the potential to become a regulator of human behavior within the society of digital civilization on a local or global level. In this sense, the future of humanity is not clearly determined by advances in the field of digital technology and artificial intelligence, since the spiritual dimension of digital society can be different, and this will determine a person’s attitude towards himself, his inner circle of people around him, humanity as a whole and Nature. Possessing unprecedented technical power, a person can cause the death of all life on the planet, but is also capable of creating conditions for the harmonious development of society, opening up new opportunities for the spiritual growth of man in his co-evolution with Nature. The future of humanity is definitely not predetermined. And this future depends not only on scientific and technological progress, but also on which system of spiritual and moral values will become dominant in society in the coming decades. There is no clear trajectory of changes in the spiritual and moral sphere in connection with the digitalization of various spheres of society and the introduction of artificial intelligence technology into social practice. Using the terminology of synergetics, we note that each specific society, undergoing a digital transformation, finds itself in a bifurcation state, when passing through which it is possible to reach one of the possible attractors. Accident associated with the subjective factor, the activities of individuals and groups, can now be of decisive importance for the spiritual and moral appearance of future humanity, in which social systems different in their spiritual and value orientations may be locally represented. We used a scenario approach to show possible options for transforming a person’s spiritual and moral life during the transition to a digital society. Turning to the philosophical subjects of the past, we carried out a retrospective analysis, based on the fact that in philosophical knowledge there is an irresistible component that can be extrapolated to the present and future of society. The synergetic methodology allowed us to consider the current state of society as a bifurcation and to see possible future scenarios as probable attractors that society can reach as a result of the qualitative changes currently taking place in it. We also used general scientific methods: abstraction, comparison, description and explanation.