Discriminatory manifestations in the context of transhumanism: socio-legal aspect

Manifestaciones discriminatorias en el contexto del transhumanismo: aspecto socio-jurídico

• Tetiana Mikhailina Vasyl Stus Donetsk National University, Vinnytsia, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1129-2470
• Iryna Zharovska Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3821-8120
• Yaryna Bohiv Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5906-4565
• Olena Kovalchuk Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5547-1625
• Olena Romtsiv Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3776-7120

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.4075.48

Keywords: discrimination and human rights, somatic rights and transhumanism, digital society, sociotechnological inequality, transhumanist gap

Abstract

The aim of the research was to identify a set of discriminatory challenges related to the development and implementation of the concept of transhumanism in a digital society, as well as to develop and justify a system of socio-legal measures aimed at their partial leveling. The main methods employed by research were: the system method, cybernetic and synergistic methods, extrapolation methods, socio-legal modeling, as well as the formal-legal method, the legal-practical method and the case method. The research proposes and substantiates the concept of sociotechnological inequality. It is concluded that there is a mutual conditionality of social (socioeconomic) and sociotechnological inequality. On the other hand, a better socioeconomic situation will also provide more opportunities for technological modifications of one’s own body. This may lead to a further deepening of the transhumanist gap, the possibility of which is justified in the research.

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