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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
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‘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]