Model of Tolerance of Intercultural Communication

In this paper a model of tolerance of intercultural communication as a methodology of solving sharp confessional, ethnic and natural conflicts of modernity is built. It's shown that the culture is a system of mental dominants at the level of being; the systems of mental dominants are qualitatively original because the cultures are unique and must be equal; the system of mental dominants and mental nucleus of culture determines intensity to maintenance of own identity; perception of cultural and civilizational phenomena of the other culture is limited by this intensity. So, the space of cultural tolerance opening the possibilities for prosperity and development of each culture and complementary interaction of cultures are possible on condition that each of them awares their own mental originality, status of mental nucleus as a limit of intercultural mutual influence and realizes own individuality and equality of all cultures

Man as Matter of Engineering: Ethical, Epistemological and Technological Boundaries of Transhumanism

The article provides a thorough analysis of the problem of human consciousness and artificial intelligence compatibility in the framework of theories and projects of modern transhumanism. There are approaches to the consciousness viewed in the framework of cognitive science theories aimed at the direct correlation between the structures of human reasoning and programmes of digital devices. The study is done from the perspectives of the consciousness being the constructive act of meaning making. The authors suggest distinguishing fundamentally the ways the consciousness is influenced by a semantic discourse or a narrative that are typical for the culture of a classical type, and, on the other hand, by a circumconsciousness influence on a person, which is typical for modern social and humanitarian technologies. Special emphasis is laid on anthropologic beliefs and theories transformations regarding the assumed and planned ways of the influence on a man by means of social and humanitarian technologies. This effect is given in the article through the notion of the anthropological horizon. A thoughtful regard is given to estimate the capability and perspectives of cognitive science and transhumanitarian projects development, and a modern practice of human and electronic information systems interaction