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Diagramming Sentences of Value: Evolving Human Rights & the Terms of Geoethical Nanotechnology Wrye Sententia, Ph.D. Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics Together Putting Puzzles Together AFM image of a cross-shaped jigsaw puzzle of 4 tectosquares - 3D models depict process of assembly. Materials Research Laboratory, UC Santa Barbara Diagramming Sentences of Value Evolving Human Rights and the Terms of Geoethical Nanotechnology 1. Puzzles: Words & Concepts 2. Terms in Ethics 3. Evolving Human Rights Syntax: patterns of relation Syntax: patterns of relation Semantics: patterns of meaning “We have made progress.” “We have made progress.” If then IF Then ELSE Jimbo saw Ahab in the park with a telescope. Example taken from Oracle’s ThinkQuest Library: Project AI Possibility # 1: Jimbo used a telescope TO see Ahab in the park. Example taken from Oracle’s ThinkQuest Library: Project AI Possibility # 1: Jimbo used a telescope TO see Ahab in the park. Possibility #2 Jimbo saw Ahab. Examples taken from Oracle’s ThinkQuest Library: Project AI Possibility # 1: Jimbo used a telescope TO see Ahab in the park. Possibility #2 Possibility #3 Jimbo saw Ahab. AND Examples taken from Oracle’s ThinkQuest Library: Project AI Possibility # 1 Possibility #2 Possibility #3 Jimbo used a telescope TO see Ahab in the park. Jimbo saw Ahab. AND Possibility #4 Simultaneous (while) Examples taken from Oracle’s ThinkQuest Library: Project AI Possibility # 1 Possibility #2 Possibility #3 Jimbo used a telescope TO see Ahab in the park. Jimbo saw Ahab. AND Possibility #4 Possibility #5 Simultaneous (while) Simultaneous (who) Examples taken from Oracle’s ThinkQuest Library: Project AI “With proper attention to ethical issues and societal needs, the result [of NBIC convergence] can be a tremendous improvement in human abilities, societal outcomes, and quality of life.” Converging Technologies Report NSF/DOC (2002) “About the cover: Polymer rods embedded with cadmium selenide nanocrystals, fluorescing at various wavelengths (M. Bawendi et al.; photograph by F. Frankel). This photograph suggests the broad societal implications of nanoscience and nanotechnology.” (NSF Report on Societal Implications of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 2001) “All nanotechnology stakeholders, from nongovernmental organizations to industry, participate in our governance and activities.” ICON Sponsors Intel Corporation ‘intensities’ Dupont Corporation Carbon Nanotechnologies Inc. Swiss Reinsurance Company L’Oreal Procter & Gamble Mitsubishi/Frontier Chem Concerns Raised by ETC • • • • • ‘intensities’ toxicity military uses surveillance with nanosensors restrictive patents on matter circumventing disability rights “Nanotechnology has yet to be perceived as a widespread, general public threat, so there is a window opportunity that should allow all key stakeholders to present accurate, factual information on its potential benefits and harms.” “Analyzing the European Approach to Nanotechnology” Evan Michelson (W. Wilson International Center for Scholars, Foresight & Governance Project) “Nanotechnology has yet to be perceived as a widespread, general public threat, so there is a window opportunity that should allow all key stakeholders to present accurate, factual information on its potential benefits and harms…By ensuring that the public at-large is well informed about issues surrounding technology, all stakeholders will be able to manage any problems and difficulties in a more open and transparent manner.” (Michelson) ENOUGH Stakeholders ? Equity Environmentalists Equity Ontology/Epistemology Privacy More Stakeholders More Stakeholders More Stakeholdes Security Environment Nanotechnology & the Poor: Opportunities & Risks www.nanoandthepoor.org INTERNATIONAL CONCERNS • Regulation & governance • Terrorism & military uses • Health and safety • Environment • Developing countries ENOUGH Dialogue ? Equity Environmentalists Equity Ontology/Epistemology Privacy More Stakeholders More Dialogue More Stakeholdes Security Environment Affirming Ethics If then If/Then/Else Straightforward Social Sentences: Strategies that don’t work • Moral • Rational Complex Social Diagrams: Affirming Strategies that do work • Principled Lexicons • Nested “If” Codes Moral Fallacy “ If we can determine the morality of nanomedical enhancements, then we will have gone far towards learning how to safely and morally handle other, more dangerous applications of nanotechnology [national security].” Tihamer T. Toth-Fejel “Humanity & Nanotechnology” Moral Fallacy “ If we can determine the morality of nanomedical enhancements, then we will have gone far towards learning how to safely and morally handle other, more dangerous applications of nanotechnology [national security]. On the other hand, if we do not understand these new technologies and their moral implications, and if our values are selfcontradictory and selfishly shortsighted, then these powerful technologies will rightfully frighten and confuse us, and might even cause our extinction w/in the next decade or two.” Tihamer T. Toth-Fejel “Humanity & Nanotechnology” Rational Fallacy “ If we could agree, as a species, what we wanted, where we were headed, and why, then we would make our future much less dangerous - then we might understand what we can and should relinquish.” Bill Joy “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us” Wired 2000 Rebuilt : How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human Michael Chorost Privacy Autonomy Choice Goal 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Goal 2. Achieve universal primary education Goal 3. Promote gender equality and empower women Goal 4. Reduce child mortality Goal 5. Improve maternal health Goal 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases Goal 7. Ensure environmental sustainability Goal 8. Develop a global partnership for development UNESCO “The brain is the organic core of the person, the agent of his freedom but also of the individual and social constraints which restrict that freedom.” Report on Ethics and Neurosciences, 1995 For more information: Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics www.cognitiveliberty.org Wrye Sententia, Ph.D. [email protected]