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Spiritual Computing

Spiritual Computing. Craig Warren Smith cwsmith@hitl.washington.edu Chulalongkorn University November 2 2007. My Talk. What is Spiritual Computing? What is “spiritual?” Spirituality and religion Why SC is emerging now? Why does SC matter? Examples Methods Where

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Spiritual Computing

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  1. Spiritual Computing • Craig Warren Smith cwsmith@hitl.washington.edu • Chulalongkorn University • November 2 2007

  2. My Talk • What is Spiritual Computing? • What is “spiritual?” • Spirituality and religion • Why SC is emerging now? • Why does SC matter? • Examples • Methods • Where • Connections to philosophy

  3. Why Now? • Spiritual Computing is possible now due to • Changes in technology: • “UX” as competitive factor • Emergence of HCI • Changes in spirituality: • Buddhism’s new role • Secularization of spirituality in advanced markets • Post-modern “kick-back” in Asia

  4. What is “Spiritual?” • Spirituality, in this case, refers to: • “a learning process through which, over time, one gains the ability to enhance the meaningfulness of one’s own experience.” • This process has four phases: • Stop/start • Renunciation/letting go • Purification/clarification • Transformative action

  5. What does spirituality have to do with religion? • Spirituality constitutes the experiential core of religions as well as secular philosophic traditions. • Religions claim to transmit the spiritual innovations of their founders. • Over time, religious authorities are frequently disrupted by reformers offering new ways to transmit these innovations.

  6. What is Spiritual Computing? • “the ideas, methods, and practice needed to bring ‘spirituality’ into the design of next-generation technologies.”

  7. Educational Health care Computer Search Home design Biofeedback for stress reduction (Intel) Examples? Serious Games (Wild Divine) Meaningful search (Google) Sacred space in homes (Microsoft)

  8. Methods? • Humanistic critique of AI • Weiser’s response: center/periphery • Varela’s innovations: • Seeing phenomenology with Buddhist eyes • Innovation in scientific method • First, second and third person science • From neuroscience to tech labs

  9. The Geopolitics of SC • The World Tour • USA: Cambridge, SF, Seattle • India: Gandhi in the tech sector • Thailand: Towards an ecoystem of “happiness technologies”

  10. What SC could mean to philosophy • Bringing the tech sector “kicking and screaming” to first principles? • New practical application for philosophy? • Catalyst for Western/Asian philosophic convergence?

  11. How you can help • Join the global web community (spiritualcomputing.com) • Keep abreast of developments in Thailand • Center for Ethics of Science and Technology • Give us your best thinking

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