Deanthropological Aspects Of Inauthentic Virtuality[Деантропологические Аспекты Неаутентичной Виртуальности]

Introduction. The influence of virtual reality on the processes of deanthropologization becomes an obvious fact of the development of numerical relations that determine philosophical concepts in the direction of posthumanistic discourse. In this type of discourse, a person is reduced to a numerical operation, an intermediate procedural link in the network structure of a numerical relationship with other objects of the digital network. The purpose of the article is to identify the relationship between virtuality and imagination, the distinction between a virtual person and a vividly imagining one. Methods. The author uses the methods of deconstruction, which identifiy new philosophical meanings of established understandings of virtuality and related anthropological types, and the phenomenological method of studying the issues of virtuality and anthropological reality, forming new perspectives for studying the phenomenon of virtuality through an appeal to the constitutive role of consciousness. Scientific novelty of the research. The scientific novelty of the study is represented by the discovery of a new anthropological distinction between homo imaginabundus and homo virtualis, implying ontological differences of these types in their appeal to the subjective and objective constitutive role of consciousness. Results. If the anthropological type homo imaginabundus is vividly imaginative and is associated with the phenomena of authentic virtuality and subjectivity, then homo virtualis refers to inauthentic virtuality only as one of its possible variants without connection with the self—affecting component as such. Conclusions. Anthropological reality is in a state of bifurcation, from which it can emerge in several ways, the most likely of which will be the ways of deanthropologization in algorithmic flows and codes of the digital environment, or the way of preserving the phenomena of self-action, vivid imagination associated with subjectivity and the field of authentic virtuality.