Serial Number: http://www.riss.kr/link?id=A106190805
Title: “Humanistic Turn” of Big History in the Artificial Intelligence Age
Author: Kim, Gi-bong
Journal: Human Beings, Environment and Their Future
Vol: Vol.- No.22
Pages: 63-88(26)
Published by: Institute of Human, Environment & Future
Date: 2019.
Register Information: KCI
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<Abstract>
Modern historical science has limited the research scope to the past in which the literal records are available, in order to establish itself as a branch of science. So, the scope of history research is not more than 5,000 years. Science, on the contrary, has expanded its scope of knowledge beyond the birth of Homo sapiens to the Big Bang. While history has narrowed the scope of research with a reduction-oriented approach, science has followed a expansion-oriented approach. In order to overcome this paradox, the big History has aimed to explore history by expanding the past of mankind to the greatest extent based on the knowledge of science.
Big History represents Wilson"s “consilience” that integrates the "two cultures" of humanities and science. But the big History of David Christian, which focuses on the origins of everything is described as "a history without human beings." It is not fun to read his big history, furthermore, its humanistic reflection is poor. The eschatological big story written by Yuval Harari could serve as an alternative model that overcomes the limitations of this origin-oriented big history. In the age of AI, mankind stands at the crossroads of “to be or not to be”. At this critical stage, we need a new model that can synthesize two types of big histories. This paper suggests a big history as general education and a big history as ‘trans-history’.
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