Preliminary Metaphysical Discourse

Metaphysics here refers to that indispensable part of philosophy linked to the search for the foundation of reality and the definition of the relationship between reality itself and the subjects who know it. Transhumanism and posthumanism as philosophical movements also have their own metaphysics, which are rooted in contemporary naturalism, characterized by a materialistic and immanent vision of reality, in which the unity and autonomy of the human subject comes to lose all consistency, reducing itself to a mere mass or agglomeration of parts. The main risk of this loss of the subject’s autonomy is the loss of any real importance of concepts such as “intelligence” and “responsibility”. This chapter invites transhumanists and posthumanists to be open to dialogue on the metaphysics of authors such as Bruno and Leibniz and to recover the autonomy of intelligence considered as a principle and as a basis for the autonomy of the subject. At the same time, I intend to promote the importance of a metaphysical mythopoeia also equipped with its own characteristic conceptual instruments (“individual”, “parts-whole relationship”, “vagueness”), with the aim of keeping pace with contemporary scientific-technological progress and to satisfy the eternal human demands for narratives of life and death.