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The Ethics of Imagination: The Space Between Your Ears Wrye Sententia, Ph.D. Director, CCLE

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.

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The Ethics of Imagination: The Space Between Your Ears Wrye Sententia, Ph.D. Director, CCLE

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  1. The Ethics of Imagination: The Space Between Your EarsWrye Sententia, Ph.D.Director, CCLE Terasem 2006 Neuro-nanotechnology and the Preservation of Human Consciousness

  2. Ethics without Imagination is Dogma; Imagination without Ethics is Dangerous.

  3. “It is inner space, not outer, that needs to be explored.”J.G. Ballard (1962)

  4. 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)

  5. Sympathy / SamenessEmpathy / Difference

  6. What is Ethics? compassion fairness honesty respect responsibility Institute for Global Ethics http://www.globalethics.org/about/faq.htm#whatethics

  7. Virgil Ulam

  8. Ulam’s experiment Phase1: Basic Health Benefits

  9. Ulam’s experiment Phase 2: Enhancement

  10. (1985)

  11. “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

  12. “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)

  13. THE REALITY FACTOR

  14. Ulam’s experiment Phase 3: Conversion

  15. Ulam’s experiment Phase 3: Conversion

  16. Joachim Schummer (April 2006)

  17. 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 Dinello Technophobia: Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology (2005)

  18. Human Rights Narratives in the 18th Century 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.

  19. 21st Century Narratives:Inner Space TechnologiesScience Fiction; Meditation; Art; Neuropharmaceuticals; Full-Immersion VR/GamesFuture Brain/Machine SymbiosisNeuro-nano Interfaces

  20. Accelerating Rights & Ethics in the 21st Century Imagination=Neuroethics Cognitive Liberty Cognitive Security

  21. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” Albert Einstein

  22. Nanomandala (UCLA) wrye@cognitiveliberty.org * www.cognitiveliberty.org

  23. “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

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