BIOTECHNICITY 2.0: A COMPUTATIONAL PHILOSOPHY OF HEALTH Biotechnicity 2.0: Computation-enabled Philosophical Advance in the Epistemology of Human Biology and the Ontology of Bioidentity

The accelerating rate of technology development and its ubiquitous proliferation is leading to a shift that technology can no longer be seen as merely an external object, but rather its new presence must be acknowledged as becoming increasingly and inextricably linked with humans and human behavior, particularly in the areas of health and biology. The ultimate end of this linkage is potentially a full integration of organic and inorganic matter. The interrelationship of humans and technology in the health context is helping to reveal more about the reality of biology, and serving as a tool for how humans interact with themselves and the world, a sort of biotechnical interface or biotechnicity. Biotechnicity 1.0, a passive data collection interface, is already evolving to biotechnicity 2.0, an interactive process that humans are having with technology in contexts relating to their own health and biology. From a computational philosophy perspective, biotechnicity 2.0 can be seen as emergent computation-driven philosophical advance in both epistemology, as knowledge is questioned and generated, and in ontology, as new ways of being are created. New computational tools in the form of hardware, software, and human computing networks are allowing knowledge to be developed and the definition of health knowledge to be questioned through participatory health initiatives, and BIOTECHNICITY 2.0: A COMPUTATIONAL PHILOSOPHY OF HEALTH ontological shifts are occurring through the impact of this new knowledge. Biotechnicity 2.0 is an important tool for practical advance in medicine, and for philosophical advance in truth elucidation, human agency, and the re-conceptualization of the subject-object problem