A move from pluripotency of cell to pluripotency of mind as a bioethical challenge of the Second Promethean epoch

The scientific and technocratic world of today normally takes more than gives back: on the one hand, we've got some determinable standards of culture as a terms of living in modern culture matrix, the notion implies a modern vision of 'musts' and 'shoulds' of an average society member such as the categories of success, career and welfare (material wealth), some huge opportunities in Science; on the other hand, we've lost our spiritual identity - spiritual identity as the way one conceives his/her place and role in the life space one is given, the mission one bears when comes into this world. How could we know what would really be better for us today, what sort of happiness should we get in order to feel ourselves full and calm? It's complicated to know and feel the direction for the development of our inner world. At the same time this development, which, in my view, has no relation to the technocratic progress, is the only means to reach a harmonic state of mind and soul, and is the key to happiness in everyday life of a man. Like an average automatic machine, a man himself has become a means of the abovementioned technocratic progress; like a cyborg, a man got used to live in a space carefully built for him by this progress, a virtual world full of illusions, lies and blind slavery. Cultural traditions have become a part of this system and turned into a standard giving rules for an average automaton. The Matrix in progress. The White rabbit disappearing. The "White rabbit" here means a Human nature, hardly touchable, almost imperceptible, a bud of energy, actually making a man feel like a human being. If lose this bud, one would become fully automatic. Fully dependant. No one. Nowhere. If though one tries to preserve it, then one would inevitably turn it and the effort itself into a piece of a cultural identity, something that is able to make a man remember what made him differ from others. The article is devoted to an issue of a bioethical challenge of modern sci-tech epoch evidencing disparity of active rise of scientific discoveries in separate sciences (in e.g. molecular biology) and of philosophical learning and apprehension of the results of such rise. Under analysis stands a philosophy's peril about possible modification of a human conscience, caused in particular by a bioethical revolution and gene engineering. It is suggested that the phenomenon of pluripotency of cell material discovered by science may consequently cause pluripotency of a human mind, which in its turn shall make real a threat of waste by a human being of a need and desire to stay a human being, shall cause degrading of a human need of spiritual growth.

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