Finding Wholes in the Metaverse: Posthuman Mystics as Agents of Evolutionary Contextualization

The Metaverse is a pervasive expression of technological culture whose impact will be global. First, through knowledge, then through social, and now through geo-spatial, AI (the foundation of the Metaverse) will connect all entities on Earth through digital means thereby creating a three-dimensional informational and experiential layer across the world dubbed the Metaverse. The Metaverse has four characteristics: augmented reality, lifelogging, mirror worlds, and virtual reality. From the standpoint of Christian cultural engagement, a contextual theology has yet to be developed. In the work that follows, the Metaverse is engaged through a combination of contextualization and wholemaking from the standpoint of posthumanism and mysticism. The study focuses on evolutionary wholemaking as identified by Teilhard/Delio, while being guided by Bevans’ five (early) models of contextualization. The method of contextual wholemaking enables new ways of seeing, embracing, communing, complexifying, and creating within the four spheres of the Metaverse. After exploring the nature of the Metaverse in the first half of the paper, insights were gathered from the dialogue between contextual theology and culture and discussed in the second half of the paper.

CONDITIONS FOR FORMING TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY OF SCHOOLBOYS

The article highlights the problem of the formation of technological literacy in the context of modern education. The interest on the part of society and the state in the formation of technologically competent personnel has been substantiated. The theoretical aspects of technological literacy are considered, as well as the concepts of technological literacy, technological culture and technological competence are differentiated. Technological literacy itself was viewed in three contexts: - as a property of the student's personality; -as an educational goal; - as a response of the education system to social demand. The request from the state is represented by a set of regulatory documents that determine the requirements for the quality and content of the educational process. The paper lists the main forms of thinking necessary for the formation of technological literacy, defines the pedagogical goals of technological education. The conditions for the formation of technological literacy in the form of a system of factors are described. Special attention is paid to the technological literacy of the teacher and the mechanism of the successive transfer of personal technological experience from teacher to student is described.

Formation of earth ethics in the context of technological culture of the late modern era

Object of research: technological culture as a matrix of interaction of the components of the system "man – society – nature/Earth". Investigated problem: the substantiation of the meaning of the Ethics of the Earth in the context of technological culture, transforms the moral and value system of the late Modern era and provokes the emergence of the era of Posthumanism. The main scientific results: the definition of the technological culture of the late Modern era made it possible to determine the existing contradictions in the moral dimension of the existence of man and the Earth. It should be noted that in the context of the technological transformation of the Earth, the existing ethics as a monoparadigm of the Enlightenment does not correspond to the challenges of the beginning of the XXI century. It is emphasized that the ethical dimension of the introduction of technologies into the existence of the Earth is an indispensable component of modern scientific discourse. It is not only about the ethical dimension of technology, but also the importance of the formation of the Ethics of the Earth. This allows to conclude that a person determines its moral position relative to the Earth in the context of the technological transformation of the Earth's existence. The scope of practical use of the research results: the research results can be used in teaching such normative courses as "Philosophy", "Philosophical Anthropology", "Culturology" for students and undergraduates, graduate students of humanitarian and technical faculties. Innovative technological product: Ethics of the Earth destroys the concept of the Earth as an object that is external to humans. The anthropological dimension of the Earth testifies to the fact that a person should be clearly aware of the responsibility for its activities, since the existence of the Earth is a condition for the existence of a person. The scope of using the innovative technological product: the substantiation of the Earth Ethics corresponds to the polyparadigmatic optics of the modern post-non-classical scientific discourse, where a person is one of the constituent parts of the nature / Earth system. The post-non-classical paradigm eliminates the New European anthropocentrism, striking the consequences of which the person of the late Modern era feels. We are talking about environmental and anthropological crises that occur in the space of the Earth in the coordinates of technological culture.

Junk Filtering through Naive Bayesian Algorithm

As the world is seamlessly developing at a very high pace, we have been seeing enormous growth in various sectors of Technology. Networking has played a crucial part in the exchange of technological culture around the globe, and the Internet being the sole medium of Network enhancement has taken over every aspect of our society. Today, most of the professional communications are done through emailing. As far as email has proven to be an efficient, professional and easy way of communication, it also comes with the disadvantage of unwanted bulk bombarding of spam content. This has been a critical concern for email users. Consequently, it has become very difficult for spam filters to efficiently filter the unwanted emails, since nowadays emails are written in such a manner that any existing algorithm cannot give 100% accuracy in predicting spam. This paper deals with Naive Bayesian Classifier that is a Machine Learning algorithm for antispam filtering, which gives satisfactory results by automatically constructing anti-spam filters with extended conduct. The review over the researched performance of Naive Bayes algorithm is done by the investigations of Spam ham csv datasets. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated based on the accuracy, recall and precision it shows on the mentioned datasets. This technique gives 96-97% accuracy and 89% precision on the investigated dataset. The result also highlights that the content of the email and the number of instances of the dataset has an apparent effect on the performance of the algorithm.

Ethno-Confessional Education of the Mennonite Colonists in the South of Ukraine in the ХIХ Century: A Historical and Pedagogical Analysis

The aim of the research is to highlight the main German philosophical, pedagogical, didactic ideas, the regulatory foundations of the organization of the school business, the leading principle of compulsory youth education and chronological presentation of major socio-cultural events that directly influenced the formation of ethno-denominational educational results in the South of Ukraine in the ХIХ century. On the basis of interdisciplinary approach, the complex of general scientific and special methods is used: historical and comparative analysis and historical and genetic analysis, systematization of scientific, educational and methodical literature, documents, periodicals. The authors comprehensively substantiated anthropotheological goal, ideas, regulatory principles of the organization of training, training of teaching staff, system-building principle, as the observance of the basic provision on compulsory education of young people, strengthening the material infrastructure of schools in the South of Ukraine. The historical genesis of the beginning of formation, prosperity and the first signs of neglect of ethno-confessional education of the Mennonite-colonists in the South Ukrainian lands during the studied period demonstrates the purposeful influence of the ideals, traditions, beliefs and public perceptions of the development of economic welfare. Negative changes are also noted, that is, the gradual loss of ethno-confessionality, as the central structure of the creative component of the model under the influence of the birth of a new industrial council and the onset of foreign technological culture in the early ХХ century.

New Media Art: Aligning Artistic Creativity And Technological Media

This article investigates the relationship between art and technology, pointing the constants of a process of cultural digestion which is mediated by the very sovereign technological environment – the Internet. Relying on the multiplicity and hybridization of the content formats, and also on the user involved interactivity as constructive vector-relationships, new media art and the internet art are natural consequences of the artistic practices of creative appropriation of contemporary technological media. As the complexity of the relationship between art and the technological environment becomes richer than ever, we assist to the creation of a contemporary ultra-technological culture, structurally dependent on the media and responsible for relativizing the critical positioning of the art consumer. Defining the premises of the interaction with a technologically interfaced world of art, the user (reader) of the Internet as a medium of expression is – equally – a consumer, and a producer of information (content).

Undisclosed creators of digitalization: A critical analysis of representational practices

The aim of this paper is to study over- and under representational practices in governmental expert advisory groups on digitalization to open up a dialogue on translations of digitalization. By uncovering how meanings converge and interpretations associated with technology are stabilized or maybe even closed, this research is in positioned within a critical research tradition. The chosen analytical framework stretches from a link between technological culture (i.e., how and where the myths and symbolic narratives are constructed), a focus on the process of interpretation (i.e., the flexibility in how digitalization could be translated and attached to different political goals and values) and a dimension of firstness (addressing education, professional experiences and geographical position to explore dominance and power aspects). The results reveal a homogeneity that is potentially problematic and raises questions about the frames for interpreting what digitalization could and should be and do. We argue that the strong placement of digitalization in the knowledge base disclosed in this study hinders digitalization from being more knowledgeably translated.