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The Ethics of Imagination: The Space Between Your
Ears
Wrye Sententia, Ph.D.Director, CCLE
Terasem 2006 Neuro-nanotechnology and the
Preservation of Human Consciousness
Ethics without Imagination is Dogma;
Imagination without Ethics is Dangerous.
“It is inner space, not outer, that needs to be explored.”
J.G. Ballard (1962)
Empathy vs. Sympathy
Empathy: “The power of projecting one's personality into the object of contemplation" Oxford English Dictionary
“The capacity to understand what another person is experiencing from within the other’s frame of reference” (Gary Bravo 2001)
Sympathy / Sameness
Empathy / Difference
What is Ethics?compassion
fairness honesty respect
responsibility
Institute for Global Ethicshttp://www.globalethics.org/about/faq.htm#whatethics
Virgil Ulam
Ulam’s experiment
Phase1: Basic Health Benefits
Ulam’s experiment
Phase 2: Enhancement
(1985)
“If you're trying to project the long-term future, and what you get sounds like science fiction, you might be wrong. But if it doesn't sound like science fiction, it's definitely wrong.”
Chris Peterson
“For real science to proceed, nanotechnologists ought to distance themselves from the giggle factor”— Steven M. Block (Lecture “What is Nanotechnology,” presented at NIH conference “Nanoscience & Nanotechnology: Shaping Biomedical Research (June 25, 2000)
THE REALITY FACTOR
Phase 3: Conversion
Ulam’s experiment
Phase 3: Conversion
Ulam’s experiment
Joachim Schummer(April 2006)
Neuro-nanofiction: Horror or Harmony?
“Greg Bear’s Blood Music takes the horror of exponentially self-replicating, intelligent nanomachines to its ultimate extreme—the termination of the natural world”—Dan DinelloTechnophobia: Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology (2005)
Lynn Hunt. "The Paradoxical Origins of Human Rights," in Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Lynn Hunt, and Marilyn Young, eds., Human Rights and Revolutions (Lanham, Md., 2000) 3–17.
Human Rights Narratives in the 18th Century
21st Century Narratives:Inner Space Technologies
Science Fiction; Meditation; Art; Neuropharmaceuticals;
Full-Immersion VR/GamesFuture Brain/Machine Symbiosis
Neuro-nano Interfaces
Accelerating Rights & Ethics
in the 21st Century
Imagination=Neuroethics Cognitive Liberty Cognitive Security
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces theentire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
Albert Einstein
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Nanomandala (UCLA)
[email protected] * www.cognitiveliberty.org
“To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.”
Auguries of Innocence, William Blake