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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Literature -- Chapter 2: An Attempt to an Applied Metaphysics -- 2.1 Three Notions for an Applied Metaphysics -- 2.1.1 Immediate Concreteness -- 2.1.2 Vital Impulse -- 2.1.3 Duration -- Literature -- Chapter 3: Time and Life: Bergson and Physics -- 3.1 The Conceptual Disarray Between Space and Time -- 3.2 Tinkering with Time: The Debacle with Einstein -- 3.3 Bohr, de Broglie and the Unfreezing of Time -- Literature -- Chapter 4: Life and Time: Bergson and the Life Sciences -- 4.1 Mechanistic Thought and Evolution -- 4.2 The Vitalist Thesis -- 4.3 The Alchemy of Life -- Literature -- Chapter 5: Time, Life and Memory: Bergson and Neuroscience -- 5.1 The Mechanistic Mind -- 5.2 Memory and Imagination -- 5.3 Unlocking the Chamber of Consciousness -- Literature -- Chapter 6: Interlude: From Epistemic Debate to an Ethics of Technology -- Literature -- Chapter 7: To Become Gods, or to Perish in the Process… -- 7.1 Imagining the Anthropocene -- 7.2 The Autopoietic Nature of Technological Systems -- 7.3 The Titanomachy Continued: From a Closed to an Open Morality -- Literature -- Chapter 8: Conclusion and Notes on Various Themes -- 8.1 Thinking Fluidity -- 8.2 On Dualism -- 8.3 Upgrading the Human -- 8.4 Internationalism and the Exchange of Worldviews -- 8.5 Innovation and the Market -- 8.6 Brief Postscriptum -- Literature -- Acknowledgements -- Afterword -- Conventions Pertaining References, Language and Terminology -- Glossary.

Se puede pensar en la biología sintética como un factor de cambio que juega un papel central en la convergencia NBIC, o BINC, contemporánea. Es decir, la convergencia de las nanociencias, las biociencias, las ciencias de la información y las ciencias cognitivas. Aunque la mayoría de los biólogos sintéticos aún no se han dado cuenta, su campo apela a nuestra imaginación al marcarse metas que hasta ahora se asociaban con la ciencia premoderna de la alquimia. En este artículo se desarrollaran algunas características de la biología sintética, así como el impacto de ésta en la noción tradicional de propiedad intelectual y en las categorías ontológicas, por un lado, del descubrimiento científico y, por otro, de la ingeniería. Es decir, la distinción entre lo natural y lo artificial, lo que crece y lo fabricado.

This book offers the policy-maker or decision-maker key insights and practical information regarding the features of ethics frameworks best suited to the ethical assessment of human cognitive enhancement (HCE) applications, such as pharmaceutical cognitive enhancers and noninvasive brain stimulation techniques. This book takes as its departure point the entrenched philosophical debate between opponents and proponents of HCE and the increased feasibility of some applications of HCE. Recent calls for policy-making in the area of human enhancement reflect the need to find a balance between addressing current ethical issues and issues that are more speculative in nature or are underpinned by abstract philosophical concepts. Practical ethical approaches for policy or decision-making should enable the development of an evidence base for the risks and benefits of HCE applications. Moreover, such practical approaches should also incorporate a broader range of value bases that would facilitate convergence regarding certain decisions and judgements. This book identifies and evaluate tools that help us to go beyond polarised philosophical debates in order to assist practical decision makers in concrete ethical deliberation and decision-making. The focus is on systematic methods with which to identify relevant ethical values and assess the impacts of an HCE application on those values in order to facilitate decision-making regarding the ethical acceptability or desirability of the application

This report presents findings to address the objectives of RRING Work Package 3 by providing an overview on the state of the art of RRI in the five UNESCO world regions. The overall project aim is to bring RRI into the linked up global world to promote mutual learning and collaboration in RRI. This will be achieved by the formation of the global RRING community network and by the development and mobilisation of a global Open Access RRI knowledge base. RRING will align RRI to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a global common denominator. The RRING project acknowledges that each region of the world is advancing its own agenda on RRI. Therefore, RRING will not be producing a Global RRI framework or strategy that is meant to be enforced in a top-down manner. Rather, increased coherence and convergence will be achieved via a bottom-up approach, learning from best practices in RRI globally and from linkages, via the new RRING community, to develop the RRI linked-up world. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The work described in this publication has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 788503. The contributing authors would also like to thank other partners for their contribution throughout the development of this deliverable. Professor Alexander Gerber (HSRW) and Dr Gordon Dalton (UCC) for their advice and support, Emmet Fox and Rihab Khalid (ARU) for assistance in writing of the global interview research report sections, Monica Racovita for development of interview protocols, guidance materials and planning, and everyone leading on country-specific interview data collection: Shari Reiss (Technion, Israel), Amr Radwan (ASRT, Egypt), Tharwh Qutaish (RSS, Jordan), René Baptista (CEP, Bolivia), Bryan Mthiko (Bintel Analytics, Malawi), Abdelhak Chaibi (R&D Maroc, Morocco).