The Formula of Man, or the Abstract Double of Phenomenology

Abstract

Contemporary thinkers believe that human individuality is defined by an inhuman, abstract, and anonymous beginning emancipated from human experience, transforming thinking into one of multiple forms of existence. Inhumanism requires describing the structure of subjects capable of connecting to space or reasons. This structure includes abilities manifested through a technolinguistic infrastructure and algorithmic intelligence that intertwine abstraction and materiality. This explanation of consciousness redefines individuality through objective laws, relegating phenomenological understanding to the background. This paper explores scenarios of inhuman thinking, emphasizing the distinction between the scientific image’s epistemological primacy and the manifest image’s genetic precedence. It considers inhumanism as an alternative to phenomenology that seeks abstraction and liberation from corporeality and analyzes Soviet cybernetics’ approaches to extracting the inhuman component from mental life. The paper analyzes the philosophical and psychological ideas of Vladimir Lefebvre, including the desire to encrust consciousness with cosmological processes, which distinguishes his approach from posthumanist philosophers. Lefebvre seeks to integrate human consciousness with the cosmos, while posthumanists see humans through the lens of artificial intelligence and intelligent machines, emphasizing abstraction and the absolutism of pure concept. Both approaches offer a vision of human beings that goes beyond conventional understandings, affirming their connection to more complex cosmic entities. Lefebvre emphasizes the similarity of reflexive processes to recursive functions, where consciousness, returning to itself and possessing invariance, forms an objectified structure that distinguishes mental objects. He introduces the notion of the demiurge, eidos-navigator, as the object’s constructor, objectifying the scheme in materiality and allowing the observer to use this scheme for systemic representation.