The Tree: Presentation splash
Fiction focusing on Vitalist materialism and technologically mediated society
-> Methods:
1. bottom up ethics
2. new manifesto/laws inspired by Asimov's laws
- update it
3. Discussing/challenging the application of reasoning to ethics
- discuss other foundations for developing ethics
- use them in the novel
4. I want to contrast the humanist, anti-humanist and posthumanist views on machine ethics. This inspiration comes from Verbeek's humanist principle of contemporary technologies- technological tools as agents for human decision making. But the fiction short story I am writing is going to ultimately focus on the Post-humanist view on machine ethics- using MacCormack's "Posthuman ethics" as a guideline for bottom-up ethics.
This is where Vitalist Materialism comes into play.