Meaning and Anti-Meaning

By: Ashimov, Isabek

This book is devoted to a philosophical exploration of the meaning of human existence in the context of humanity's technological transformation and the proliferation of AI. The author examines historical, fundamental, and philosophical conceptions of the meaning of life-from ideas of destiny and a transcendent purpose to freedom, responsibility, and the independent creation of meaning. The central conclusion of the study is the transformation of the very process of meaning-making during the transition from the "bio-species" to the "techno-species." In this context, the author introduces the concept of "Meaning/Anti-Meaning," according to which Anti-Meaning does not imply absence or nonsense, but rather a crisis, negation, inversion, and the overcoming of the previous system of meaning. Anti-Meaning is interpreted as a liminal state and, at the same time, as a transition operator between two chains of meaning formation: "Meaning₁ → Anti-Meaning → Meaning₂." Nevertheless, the very transformation of the human being is viewed not only as a biological, technological, or anthropological process, but also as a semantic transformation. The book develops the hypothesis that the biospecies exists within the space of anthropobiological Meaning, whereas the technospecies emerges through Anti-Meaning

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6630480570
• ISBN13: 9786630480573
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Our Knowledge Publishing
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"