December 8, 2020
1:00 - 4:00 PM (Pacific Standard Time)
Location: Google Meets
"Complex Information Ethics Theory"
Ken Solis
Abstract
Complex-information (C-I) ethics is an information-centric theory of which several variants have already been proposed. Importantly, syntactical information is fundamentally a synonym for the ordered relationships that are necessary for anything to be extant or communicated. Conversely, the thermodynamics property called “entropy” is the antithesis of information and order. Relationships are the central basis of the “feminist ethics of care,” and on a much broader scale for “information ethics” as proposed by philosopher Luciano Floridi. Traditional feminist ethics primarily weighs the value of relationships between humans and its communities. However, Floridi’s information ethics is concerned about syntactical information beginning at the physical level so that even artifacts resulting from atomic relationships have value. Negative values such as suffering and destruction are consistent with increases in entropy and its typical increase in disorder.PRESENTATION SLIDES
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