There is an ongoing debate about the ethics of research on lifespan extension: roughly, using medical technologies to extend biological human lives beyond the current ‘natural’ limit of about 120 years. At the same time, there is an exploding interest in the use of artificial intelligence to create ‘digital twins’ of persons, for example by fine-tuning large language models on data specific to...
This article addresses a normative challenge for illusionism. It arises from the acceptance of sentientism — a theory that affirms the moral significance of phenomenal states. Illusionism, which denies the existence of phenomenal consciousness, may prompt a revision of ethical frameworks. The author demonstrates that illusionism can preserve the moral relevance of subjective experiences without...
Contemporary science of complexity have a significant impact on ideas about the relationship between humans and the environment. They integrate the achievements of systems approach, cybernetics, synergetics, constructing an ontology of diversity, which requires a radical conceptual turn in epistemology. Enactivism is an under-appreciated epistemological strategy that proceeds from notions of...