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The Black Box: Methods

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Centerpiece: The contemporary Posthuman condition: Life After Species

Fiction focusing on Vitalist materialism and technologically mediated society
-> Methods:
  1. Bottom up ethics: one that is not authorized top down necessarily, but embedded and, therefore, applicable.
  2. A new manifesto/laws inspired by Asimov's laws
    1. Point of project: AI's Fallibility, Limits, but discursive to the subject of the Posthuman condition.
  3. To Illustrate and challenge the application of reasoning to ethics
    1. Discuss other foundations for developing ethics.
    2. Use these applications in the short story.
  4. Goal: 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.
    1. Character and user development in plot becomes conditioned- to steer away from human subjectivity.
    2. This is where Vitalist Materialism and the Post-human condition is illustrated- from the meta-novel narrative.
    3. Users will soon realize that the Black Box / the machine is acting for itself and other beings in a complex, relational environment to prevent harm and efficiently decide on behalf of everybody- basing its decisions on the laws.
      1. The users in this case turned out to be the characters in the story becoming the users and the actual audience invited to imagine the manifesto and outcome of the plot's end.

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