The fate of intelligence and the mission of reason. Philosophy before the challenges of the digitalization era

The book considers a wide range of theoretical, cognitive, philosophical and socio-philosophical problems, generated by the rapid development of digital information and telecommunication technologies. Particular attention is paid to the issues of rethinking the concepts of intelligence and reason in modern technological contexts, taking into account the achievements of artificial intelligence. Against the background of the use of electronic communications for increasingly sophisticated methods of manipulating a person, the antimanipulation potential of classical argumentation and methods of argumentation analysis is discussed. The distinction between, firstly, digitalization as the lasting more than seven decades with a complex set of processes of development, production and more and wider use of digital electronic computers and technologies and, secondly, the “Digitalization” meme that appeared several years ago, which became the result and a means of rebranding the previously known topic of computerization of society, computer revolution, information society, and knowledge society. An attempt to consider society as a complex intellectual system is presented, in which crisis processes develop in the growth of deings between the structures of the management of the scientific and educational complex, on the one hand, and the intellectual class of society - on the other