A social assessment (technology assessment) of the challenges of digital reality is carried out on the example of the COVID-19 pandemic case in the «smart city»; the analysis of emerging emergent effects in the implementation of digital technologies in the crisis, and the dilemmas inherent in the smart city in this regard is carried out. The methodology of cyberphysical systems crisis modeling and intelligent infrastructures has been developed. Approaches for building a promising system of ethical and axiological regulations and possible compensatory mechanisms for adapting society and people to the challenges of digital reality in conditions of uncertainty and fragility are outlined; cognitive sociotechnical models for managing the processes of digital reality have developed and ways to build roadmaps for their implementation are outlined.

This research is aimed to analyze the topoi of living space in the context of the development of modern information technologies and the Internet of things in the process of moving towards man and technology convergence. The author analyzes some phenomenological aspects of topoi of living space: home, consumption, some aspects of political life, body and corporality. The author highlights the trends of universalization and customization in the framework of the existence of topoi and shows their dialectically contradictory nature in various segments of modern man’s life. In the framework of the topos «at home», the technologies of the Internet of things are analyzed and a partial loss of the intention of control is represented (which is associated with the autonomy of life supporting processes. The topos of consumption is suffered the transformation and correlated with the trend of needs customization, which goes to the plane of political life along with the tendency to strengthen control and calculability of individuals. Finally, the topos of the body and corporeality reveals the interaction of the trends of a certain technological universalism and customization. The author makes some futurological predictions and evaluate trends in the framework of topoi of living space, that take place on the way to technological singularity - the point of convergence of technology and man.

The article analyzes the impact of the problem of personal data on the discussion of the ethical aspects of artificial intelligence. The concept of artificial intelligence ethics of the USA, China, the European Union and Australia is analyzed. The general principles and problems of forming ethical commissions for conducting an ethical examination of artificial intelligence systems have been identified. It is shown that at present, the decisive role in conducting a humanitarian assessment is provided by representatives of the business community and government. At the same time, civil society institutions have great potential to influence decision-making in this area. The problems of protecting the confidentiality of information, the possibilities of informed consent and ensuring the safety of users are considered. It is shown that the openness of society, intensifying as a result of the introduction of new media and artificial intelligence systems, is two-sided, and naturally limits the possibilities of building a totalitarian state.

The technology of «smart home», its components and ways of the development are analyzed in the paper. The authors study the correlation between «smart home» and human practices. The authors note the increasing functionality of devices that are correlated with the concept of a smart home, and at the same time they analyze the tendency to customize the space of life in general and the possibilities of customized creation of smart home elements. The authors consider the use of 3D-printing technology in creating of some interior elements and the possible use of this technology in the future in a broader aspect within the entire home space of interactions. The authors study some technologies within the framework of the smart home concept: such as «smart dust». Due to this «smart dust», a significant reduction in energy costs and completely new prospects for increasing the autonomy of the components of a smart home are possible (the transformation of the idea of device and network autonomy within the Internet of things and smart home).

The article analyzes the concept of understanding in mathematical discourse. The role of understanding in two types of proof - traditional conceptual and computer-based-is considered. It is shown that the concept of understanding in the framework of the philosophy of mathematics for the case of computer proof is most interesting in the works of the late Wittgenstein. Next, we consider the question of what should be a philosophical theory in which this kind of understanding can be part of the conceptual apparatus. The requirements for such a theory include explanations of the various types of «competent mathematical behavior» required of computer program creators. Since these programs are not limited to a particular search strategy, but are «understanding» to a certain extent, the desired philosophical theory should bring «human understanding» and «computer understanding» closer together.

This article explores the problem of free will expecially as it is understood by libertarian philosophers. This problem becomes even more relevant in connection with the modern scientific understanding of the world which puts forward the demand of naturalism for resolving mind-body problem. The American philosopher R. Kane insists that it is necessary to rethink the traditional libertarian and compatibilist definitions of free will in order to get ahead from the standstill of current free will debates. These definitions were given their classical forms in T. Hobbes and D. Bramhall’s polemic. T. Hobbes gives a compatibilist definition of free will, i. e. of free will compatible with determinism, but only at the level of ordinary language. R. Kane suggests to pay more attention to Hobbes’ opponent, who takes into account stronger intuitions, which helps to consider related concepts, such as moral responsibility, genuine creativity, love, personal dignity, etc. in their full sense. Following the Bramhall’s tradition R. Kane expands the traditional libertarian definition of free will and shows that it is possible to make it compatible with the modern science by using such notions as «plural rationality», «self-forming acts», etc. The main task of this article is to answer why, from R. Kane’s point of view, the reduction of the traditional understanding of free will is not only unnecessary, but also harmful.

The description of complex modern computer systems can often be biased. This complicates the management of computer systems and their constituent computer nodes, their dynamic structural and parametric correction. Therefore, in this paper we consider an approach based on the methods of physical Informatics. This approach allows us to obtain finite point characteristics of a complex computer system after its reconfiguration. Such assessments will help to assess the feasibility of changes and management.

The article is based on reports and discussions held during the zoom conference, which was timed to the world Internet of Things Day, April 9, 2020. The main topics of the Russian IoT-Day 2020: Love and sex in the era of global cyber connectivity: the body in the Internet and the Internet of bodies, Cyberphysical systems for preventing global threats: Internet disasters, Smart enterprises and production: prospects for the development of industry 4.0 in modern cities