東京大学先端科学技術研究センター グローバルセキュリティ・宗教部門(池内研究
室)は、このたび、テルハイ・カレッジ（イスラエル）のヨハイ・アタリア博士をお招きして、特別講演「技術の本質は人間の本質である（か）」(“(Is) the Essence of Technology the Essence of Humans (?)”)を開催いたします。

日時：2023 年3 月 12日（日）16時-17時半
開催場所：オンライン (参加登録者には、後日URLを送付)

講師：ヨハイ・アタリア博士 (テルハイ・カレッジ)

主催：東京大学先端科学技術研究センター(グローバルセキュリティ・宗教分野/池内研)
東京大学先端科学技術研究センター・創発戦略研究オープンラボ(ROLES)
東京大学グローバル地域研究機構(IAGS)
GSI キャラバン・プロジェクト「中東国際政治における主要地域大国と域外大国の関係
をめぐる実地調査と対話」(代表者:池内恵)


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問い合わせ先：東京大学先端科学技術研究センター特任研究員(グローバルセキュリティ・宗教分野/池内研究室) 山城貢司(koji.yamashiro@gmail.com)

概要：
アタリア博士は、トラウマ研究、現象学、認知科学、文学・芸術論といった幅広い分野に亘って、数多くの論考を著している新進気鋭の哲学者です。本講演は、マルティン・ハイデッガーの「技術の本質は存在そのものである」という有名なテーゼを再考しつつ、進化論や人類学的知見なども取り入れながら、「人間なるもの」の謎に迫ります。

技術という人類史のいわば核心部分を巡って透徹した思索が展開されるであろう本講演は、人文学・社会科学の研究者を哲学的洞察に誘うだけでなく、自然科学の専門家にとっても自らの研究活動の原点に立ち戻る貴重な機会となると思われます。多くの方々の積極的なご参加を心より期待いたしております(講演内容と詳細と講師紹介については、英語のシラバスをご参照ください)。

本講演は、山城貢司特任研究員がプロジェクト・リーダーとして推進する国際研究プロジェクトHumanitas Futuraの一環として、開催されます。

Abstract:
The Essence of Technology Is the Essence of Humans (?)

According to Heidegger, “the essence of technology is Being itself.” This lecture tries to work out whether this is an empty slogan or rather a profound insight that allows us to better understand who and what is human being, and perhaps even to answer the question where did we come from and where are we going? If origin does indeed determine the essence of being, and if the origin of Homo is inherently connected to the use of tools, that is to say, technologies did not merely precede the genus Homo chronologically, but are also directly related to its evolution, we could argue that Heidegger’s thesis has empirical support. In this connection, we shall also critically evaluate the philosophical work of Bernard Stiegler and the anthropological study of Andre Leroi-Gourhan.

In the first section, we will examine the link between the evolution the genus Homo and the use of technologies. We will propose that the use of tools and the making of tools distinguish Homo in general and Homo sapiens in particular and have arguably made it what it is – and in that sense, also determine where we go from here. Homo, it will be suggested, emerged from technologies and developed in their shadows and images – always has and always will. In the second section, we will argue that grasping tools opened us up to the world and shaped how we are thrown into it – grasping allows exteriorization of cognitive processes, and thereby facilitates accelerated evolutionary processes beyond the organism level. To understand the rise of Homo, we will propose in this section, we must nullify the dichotomy between Who and What. In this process, as we will show, the notion of “human being” transforms so radically that we must place it in quotation marks. In a way, it is not a being at all. In the third section, we will present the idea that what distinguishes us as a genus is that “we make things, which in turn make us.” Finally, we will return to the starting point of this lecture and ask how we should understand Heidegger’s thesis and to what degree is it true and real.

Yochai Ataria (1982) is an associate professor at Tel-Hai College, Israel. He conducted his PhD in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his post-doctoral research in the Neurobiology Department at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He has published over 40 papers. He is the author of the following books: The Structural Trauma of Western Culture (2017); Body Disownership in Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (2018); The Mathematics of Trauma [Hebrew] (2014); Not in our Brain [Hebrew] (2019); Levi versus Ka-Tsetnik (2022); Consciousness in Flesh (2022). In addition, he co-edited the following volumes: Interdisciplinary Handbook of Culture and Trauma (2016); Jean Améry: Beyond the Minds Limits (2019); Kafka: New Perspectives [Hebrew] (2013); The End of the Human Era [Hebrew] (2016); 2001: A Space Odyssey – 50th Anniversary [Hebrew] (2019); Body Schema and Body Image: New Directions (2021).