Homo-Loggatus. The anthropological condition of historians in the digital world

TL;DR

This paper explores how digital interconnectedness is transforming human cognition and the role of historians, proposing a new anthropological and methodological framework for digital history.

Contribution

It introduces the concept of Homo-Loggatus, a new anthropological condition of historians shaped by digital interconnection, and suggests a redefinition of research methodology in digital history.

Findings

Humans are evolving into a new cognitive entity due to digital interconnection.

The digital niche influences human epigenetics and cognition.

A new anthropological status for historians is emerging in the digital age.

Abstract

Computerization has created a digital ecological niche where humans live in a state of interconnection that modifies their Epigenetics. Within this hyper-datafied virtual space, the logged-in agent enhances their intellectual and rational abilities, giving rise to a new cognitive entity. Humans are evolving towards a new anthropological status that shifts the terms of the Digital History debate from History to the historian, compelling the latter to reflect on the positions of Fichte and Schelling regarding the mind-body-world relationship (ecological niche). This reflection leads to the possibility of overcoming the crisis of History imposed by presentism and the necessity of redefining the research methodology based on the new vision of the interconnection between the mind and the digital niche as an investigative tool.