How will human values ​​and morals be affected in the digital age? : Mohammed Al Sabani

The digital world has plunged man into the values ​​of falsehood, illusion and lies, and he has used many techniques such as the “deepfake” technique to overturn the facts of reality so that the lie becomes true and the illusion becomes true, to the point where it is impossible to distinguish between the printed reality and the manufactured reality, and in this a revolution of values ​​follows a coup , These technologies challenge reality to create a reality for them, relying on all the data of the natural and real reality in order to create their reality.

And if it is derived from the fact that a person is named like that because he feels sympathetic to others, then sympathy cannot be achieved without forgetting the lapses of some of us, condoning, transgressing, and forgiving. It contains all the values ​​that a person carries

The fact that the digital machine does not forget all the information recorded in it is a blow to the value of forgetting that characterizes the person in his dealings, as forgetting may be a means of forgiveness and the resumption of new relationships that build and do not destroy, raise or put down, while not forgetting grudges and faults is nothing but a means of wrestling and fighting.

The objection of the objector to the fact that not forgetting may be a consolidation of the good, and thus bypassing the previous conflict, is not useful here, because not forgetting the good is a moral rank that automatic action does not reach, since the principle in the one who does not achieve this rank is to forget that good at all or deliberately forget it in the service of his interest. material and to achieve its sensual benefit.

It is known that remembering the good and not forgetting the beautiful is a supreme value that the machine does not realize its hidden meanings or its Sunni morals, even if it preserves its appearance and image. .

This is in addition to the fact that forgetting in the context of building morals and strengthening relationships is a perfection of a person and not a detraction of him, as it was the perfection of the definition in the origin of the derivation, which considers a person a human being because he forgets.

And if it is derived from the fact that a person is named like that because he feels sympathetic to others, then sympathy cannot be achieved without forgetting the lapses of some of us, condoning, transgressing, and forgiving. Within it are all the values ​​that a person carries out.

We have in the human deliberative reservoir something that justifies this, as we find phrases and coins such as “we are the sons of today,” “what is past is dead,” and “Islam negates what came before” that support the forgetfulness by which a person achieves his perfection, not the forgetfulness by which he perpetuates his death. Just before the oblivion that brought down the sons of Adam in value before expelling them from Paradise and bringing them down to earth.

All this fascination and confusion caused him to be associated with the description of the digital as a double association, so that he hoped to do as the digital machine does in its procedural actions and technical movements until he was stripped of his humanity and out of his nature, falling into the realm of the mechanism, and it is known that there is no way out for humans from their reality by entering the act of the machine on Their behavior and behaviour

The digital world deprived man of his right to emotional elevation and moral transcendence, as it restricted him to a system of procedures that characterize the machine, an image, light, a network, and other mechanical features that are characterized by inertia, because they are devoid of the meanings that give actions their moral significance.

Thus, digitals contribute to dwarfing the significance of human life, as they limit it to the material significance, thus wasting what is in life of spiritual indications that achieve for man his sublimity, perfection and lofty in a way that the limited material significance does not achieve.

Man's fascination with the conquests of the digital world and his achievements that history has not witnessed before made him fall into a coma that froze him on his reality, as he lost the ability to perceive all aspects of his time as well as anticipate his future, so he became rigid in his place, unable to move to see his position within the universe.

All this fascination and confusion made him associated with the description of digital, a double association, so that he hoped to do as the digital machine does in its procedural actions and technical movements until he was stripped of his humanity and out of his nature, falling into the realm of the mechanism, and it is known that there is no way out for humans from their reality by entering the act of the machine on their behavior and their behaviour.

Thus, all meaning of values ​​is negated, as the act of sacrifice, for example, becomes meaningless, because it is neither a procedure nor a technique, as well as the absence of every material gain behind it. The digital time does not establish in the organisms a greater profit than the material profit, so that the moral profit becomes neither value nor content.

Thus, man has given up his spirit that elevates him to the highest levels of humanity, and he has also given up his feeling that elevates him to the purest meanings of his life.

The digital time has made humans mere executive beings in isolation from the two most important characteristics of the human being, which are freedom and choice. Thus, it becomes an executive object that implements what the programmer wants from it according to a specific combination that is similar to what algorithms do in computer programs.

In addition to the above, one of the fundamental revolutions brought about by the digital age in the human being is that he is not satisfied with intrusion into his public space, as he has become more insistent to break into his private space, by luring him through social media and “Metaverse” to expose all his privacy and intimacy, bringing the largest number of people. From views, comments and settlement in the Internet by "avatars", and thus greed for maximum profits and revenue.

Based on what was mentioned, man has moved from the phase of folding and covering to the phase of scandal and publication, so that in case of remorse - and this is a noble human feeling - he is unable to resume his life in a normal way, because he has become an open being pursued by scandals wherever he goes, and digital memories remind him of what he was He is proud of him and he went into hiding from him when he regained his human depth, and not when he regretted it.

That is because Al-Tawari is out of his possession because he has waived his right to own his privacy when owned by other onlookers and followers, and as a result he loses even his right on the way back to his pure humanity and pure humanity.

Proceeding from the above and from the principle of human freedom, artificial intelligence cannot bear responsibility or express a will like the case of human beings, so does the digital machine bear the responsibility for the medical error if it occurs? Will the law intervene to punish and punish her? Even if this punishment is imposed, what is the point of it? Will the law retain power, value, or wisdom in the future of a digitally-governed world?

With regard to expressing the will, the person eats food in submission to an instinctive need, and the machine is charged with energy in submission to a material need, but can this machine take the decision to fast for one day, let alone realize its meanings, connotations and purposes.

Only man is able to make this decision, because fasting is the highest expression of the will, as well as the finest indication of freedom.

In view of the question of art that distinguishes man from other creatures, but rather artifacts such as a digital machine, an objector may present a contemporary claim that some computer systems are able to write novels or compose some passages they thought were artistic because they fell into a coma of fascination because of the digital act in the present time, and the answer is the following:

The contemporary novel has abandoned its artistic depth, which used to express the human spirit, because it was most influenced by the scientific method in analysis and experimentation, and as long as it is like that, the computer, by doing what they called intelligence, will be more general awareness of this method, and from there it will not be difficult to write a more scientific novel artistic ones.

The observer of the contemporary novel characters will discover, based on what I mentioned in the first point, that they descended from the level of the personality with uniqueness and human nature to the level of thing and matter, and it is known that if it is devoid of conscience, it becomes a manifestation that is not difficult for the procedural machine to build and create.

The relationships that exist between the characters in the contemporary novel are mechanical relationships that absent all emotional feelings and attend a group of analytical activities and procedures until those relationships become, in their strongest conditions, a cause-effect relationship.

The criticism that dealt with the contemporary novel is a criticism that admires mostly the analytical scientific methods, and thus fell into the glorification of this novel, for which criteria were taken that distanced itself from the artistic and literary standards that should originally be the ruling in the evaluation.

That is why we found many critics adopting purely scientific theories related to physics, neurosurgery and others, and they take them out of their field and drop them on a field far removed from the first, as if they want to deal with the law of the body with the soul or the standards of matter with meanings, and this is a major flaw in the curriculum if they knew.

This is in addition to the excess that it entails as a result of correcting the difference between knowledge and the fact that most of it follows the empirical and material scientific law without acknowledging the moral consideration of each knowledge.

In conclusion, the question remains about the ability of man to save himself from his previous contract with the digital time as long as this contract is in its implicit phase and before it jumps to its formal phase, so man is enslaved worse than he was enslaved in the ancient time, so his existence and history are lost as well as his culture. And his being, especially with the emergence of a technology that distracts man from his real presence and his civilized reality, to become a citizen or “avatara” within the Internet city, which cancels the dimension of the real world, entering man into the labyrinths of the beyond and his comas until it plunges him into more illusion and lost away from the question of meaning and values.

All he has to do then is to wait - if he is allowed to exist - for the digital time to finish its cycle with all its counts and precipices, then to gather itself to resume a new cycle, we do not know what is coming.