Modern university as quantorium and universum: Educational worlds of noospheric history

UDC 37.01

DOI 10.20339/AM.10-23.017 

Dmitry G. Smirnov, Dr. Sci. (Philosophy), Docent, Head of the Philosophy Department at Ivanovo State University, e-mail: smirnovdg@ivanovo.ac.ru

The article analyzes the problems of extreme transitivity of the modern university education as a competition between two historically established strategies — classical university (university as a universe of knowledge) and polytechnic (quantorium) university. The idea is substantiated that the co-evolution of the biosphere, sociosphere and technosphere, reflected in the global mosaic educational space, generates competition between various variations of the university consciousness and worldview. It is shown that the intellectual university history, as the information revolution unfolds, is gradually turning into a noospheric history, which assumes the explosive nature of the global human revolution in the 21st century. The conclusion is made about the formation of developed forms of “university cephalization” of humanity within the framework of university models of hybrid co-evolution of natural mind and artificial intelligence.

Keywords: noospheric history, intellectual history, human revolution, natural mind, artificial intelligence, university ruinization, hybrid coevolution, universe and quantorium.

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