12.4 Ethical Synergy 215 Thus, empathic “ethics of care” involves a combination of episodic and sensorimotor ethics, complementing the mainly declarative ethics associated with the “ethics of justice.” In Gilligan’s perspective, the earliest stage of ethical development occurs...
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risk easily managed and far in the future, but also it’s extremely unlikely that we'd even try to move billions of humans to Mars in the first place. The analogy is a false one, however. We are already devoting huge scientific and technical resources to creating ever-more-capable...
…Mark and ISO 13485” manufacturing certificate and is approved for sale in the EEA and EFTA countries, said Eror. In the U.S., the ProLung test is still for investigational use only and undergoing multi-site clinical trials for FDA clearance as a “510(k) device,” he added. Becaus...
From Selfish Genes to Social Brains The Chicago Social Brain Network was established to examine how science might inform us about our fundamental human nature, including the apparently irrepressible quest for connection with a higher understanding and organization. Science can d...
designer to craft a spindly “male” apparatus of hinges and rods, set up to communicate with bulbous “female” fiberglass entities nearby. Whether anyone could actually map the quiddities of the program (or glean its reactionary gender theater) without reading the catalog essay is...
…nimum, it is becoming rapidly difficult to hide behind vague intuition for ethical decisions—“I know it when I see it” (U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, 1964) or the “wisdom of repugnance” (aka “yuck factor,” Leon Kass, 1997), or vague appeals to “common sense.” As we h...
(2006). Host-handling behavior: an innate component of foraging behavior in the parastaoid wasp Ampulex compressa. Ethology, 112(7), 699-706; Wedman, S., Bradler, S., & Rust, J. (2007). The first fossil leaf insect: 47 million years of specialized cryptic morphology and behavior....
means that maturation eventually legitimizes individuals as potential evildoers. It does not, however, cause a shift in our sense of evilrecipients. Willie Bosket may not have been an evildoer, but he certainly could have been an evilrecipient. What about psychopaths, people lik...
tend to leave them within this arena even if they lose particular capacities. Conversely, if scientists discover that an organism outside the arena of moral patient-hood has capacities of experience and agency that are on a par with those inside the arena, this evidence often pro...
TED2017: The future you https://ted2017.ted.com/program 4/20/17, 12:07 PM satellite observations to monitor and explain the changes happening around us. Her work has suggested that human activities are already affecting global rainfall and cloud patterns. Marvel is committed to...
superintelligences is likely to be competitive. Humans might be seen as minor annoyances, like ants at a picnic, but hybrid superintelligences—like corporations, organized religions, and nation states—could be existential threats. Like hybrid superintelligences, Als might see hum...
346 A Glossary Goe08. Ben Goertzel. A pragmatic path toward endowing virtually-embodied ais with human-level lin- guistic capability. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), 2008. Goe09a. Ben Goertzel. Cognitive synergy: A universal principle of feasible gener...
declined in quality. People feel less trusting of others than in previous decades, face-to-face communication is less frequent, and people's social networks have become more fragmented, producing smaller social clusters rather than expansive, civic community groups. Empathy with...
… College, Cambridge CB2 1ST, U.K. Present address: Dept. of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, U.S.A. Published as pp. 231-252 in Characterizing Human Psychological Adaptations, edited by G. Bock and G. Cardew. CIBA Foundation Symposium 208. John Wiley a...
Morality Games 305 likely detected them and will likely levy sanctions. So the United States’s best response is to levy sanctions. Similarly, if the United States does not detect chemi- cal weapons, it expects France did not and will not levy sanctions, so the United States is b...