Re: [Fis] further comments: AAAS

Ted,

I think in this regard we should make a clear
difference between ethics and morality. As
scientists we are commited to ethics, i.e. to
reflection on moral rules (="ethos"). Our
special responsibility is to keep ethics alive
as a continuous reflection on the problems (!)
posed (also) by a universal code of morals
(as in the case of UDHR and other such
codes of conduct). Of course, any ethics
presupposes also a morality (as its object)
and... we cannot find a 'quiet place' where
we 'just' reflect on morals without any connection to
moral practice not to speak about the
difficult relations between morals and politics
which is not the same as ethics and politics.

Rafael

> >In another order of things, an officer of the AAAS (American Ass.
> >Adv. of Science) contacted me some weeks ago, through Wolfgang
> >intermediation. Seemingly, they are trying to organize an
> >'Information Science' symposium and track for their annual meeting,
> >next year in Seattle. Amazingly, they were already aware of FIS
> >proposals, and they consider very promising the critical
> >examination of 'information foundations' we are making. Let us hope
> >that as the present ominous circumstances clear out, their project
> >will survive and will get ahead...
>
> That's my doing, through Dale Doucette. I hope I did well, because I
> focused on the more technical and promising of our discussions as a
> real attempt at reinventing science. Some recent trends to somehow
> drag politics into the discussion, to conflate an examination of
> science with some "crisis" or another in world events, and to assume
> that better system science will make the world heavenly makes me
> question my recommendation.
>
> Really Pedro. Naturally there are lively discussions we can all have
> about human justice and moral action, but it is a very slim
> connection with the nature of information, even in the context of
> self-organizing human societies unless you rely on a sophomoric gloss.
>
> Best, Ted
> --
> Ted Goranson
> Advanced Enterprise Research Office
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