IMPACT OF TECHNOGENIC CIVILIZATION ON THE EVOLUTION OF SCIENTIFIC THINKING

The article considers the evolution of thinking in the context of technogenic civilization. The article aims at tracing the evolution of scientific thinking as a phenomenon of technogenic civilization from scientific and technological thinking to informational one in the context of asserting the authority of useful knowledge based on mathematical evidence, formal logic, and the achievements of modern science. The study was conducted in 2022 using qualitative data collection methods. The study shows that the formation of technogenic civilization is due to the influence of scientific and technological thinking, whose emergence is caused by the requirements of modern reality, where the cultural and humanitarian spheres give way to scientific and technological. Scientific and technological thinking conditions the development of information and computer technologies that generate informational thinking. It is concluded that science is the base and means of systematizing natural and social reality. It causes the emergence and development of engineering and technology. On their basis, scientific and technological thinking is formed, whose philosophical and methodological foundation is rationalism. The transformation of scientific and technological thinking in the process of social changes leads to the emergence of informational thinking, which is the result of the development of information and digital technologies and appears as a mode of scientific and technological thinking.