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Parte I-Pensamiento más sabio Capítulo 1 Introducción ….. 12 Capítulo 2 Regla de oro/Regla del ar... more Parte I-Pensamiento más sabio Capítulo 1 Introducción ….. 12 Capítulo 2 Regla de oro/Regla del arco iris ..... 25 Capítulo 3 Desafíos de la regla del arco iris ..... 41 Capítulo 4 La ética como diálogo colaborativo ..… 52 Parte II-Una Tierra más sabia Capítulo 5 La economía como creación de historia ...... 81 Capítulo 6 La política como transformación no violenta de conflictos ..… 121 Capítulo 7 La inteligencia artificial como sabiduría colaborativa ..… 154 Capítulo 8 Diálogo entre credos y culturas ..… 231 Capítulo 9 Un puente hacia el futuro ….. 248 Notas finales …. 260 Bibliografía …. 271 Apéndices …. 291 Acerca del autor …. 292 Agradecimientos …. 293 Acerca del Instituto Cuáquero Para el Futuro …. 296 ¿Planeta más Inteligente o Tierra más Sabia?

The “internet of things” model for making ours a “Smarter Planet” it rapidly transforming our wor... more The “internet of things” model for making ours a “Smarter Planet” it rapidly transforming our world with forms of reasoning whose logic ignores a host of considerations required to make our home a Wiser Earth. In his foundational paper on “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”, Alan Turing introduced two distinct strategies for developing computers and Artificial Intelligence systems. For decades, the focus has been on the first, the “Turing Machine” model, with its algorithmic process of computing whose monological reasoning is making many systems “smarter” but in profoundly unwise ways. His second strategy was to use dialogical processes of parenting and pedagogy to cultivate “child machines” in ways that could integrate with human and ecological communities in wiser ways. This paper outlines the general principles of such an approach to dialogical AI systems and provides examples of how they might offer a sounder and more sustainable approach to the human ecology of the systems monitoring and intervening in our world.

Journal of Rural Development, Sep 30, 2019

Peace & Change, Jul 1, 1984

Paulist Press eBooks, 1986

number of people talked with me about the ideas of this book or commented on the drafts of it. Th... more number of people talked with me about the ideas of this book or commented on the drafts of it. They lacked any editorial power that would incur blame for its flaws but they had gifts of insight and analysis that improved it considerably. I would especially like to thank:

Man and world, Dec 1, 1983

Proceedings of the XXIV International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology (SHE), 2022

Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies

Hopes for biasing the odds towards the development of AGI that is human-friendly depend on findin... more Hopes for biasing the odds towards the development of AGI that is human-friendly depend on finding and employing ethical theories and practices that can be incorporated successfully in the construction, programming and/or developmental growth, education and mature life world of future AGI. Mainstream ethical theories are ill-adapted for this purpose because of their mono-logical decision procedures which aim at “Golden rule” style principles and judgments which are objective in the sense of being universal and absolute. A much more helpful framework for ethics is provided by a dialogical approach using conflict resolution and negotiation methods, a “Rainbow rule” approach to diversity, and a notion of objectivity as emergent impartiality. This conflict resolution approach will also improve our chances in dealing with two other problems related to the “Friendly AI” problem, the difficulty of programming AI to be not merely smarter but genuinely wiser and the dilemmas that arise in co...

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 1982

EGARDLESS of what other views they may hold concerning the mental, physicalists are committed to ... more EGARDLESS of what other views they may hold concerning the mental, physicalists are committed to the claim that if there are mental events they occur in space, in the public space in which birds are observed flying and cars are observed colliding.1 I propose to offer rather definitive evidence that this view is correct.2 The argument advanced will draw on one of
the most straightforward results of one of our most well-established theories, Einstein's special theory of relativity (STR).
The essence of the argument to be offered is as follows. STR implies that we can only specify the locus of the occurrence of an event in public time (the temporal order described by science) if we also specify a locus of its occurrence in public space. If we grant that there are mental events, we should hold that tliey occur at specifiable loci in the public temporal order. So, if we grant that there are mental events, we should hold that they occur in public space.

Preface............................................................................................. more Preface........................................................................................................ Part I: THE PEACE THAT IS A PROBLEM Introduction: What might peace be?............................................................. 1. The Obscured and the Glimmering..................................................................... 2. Against Tranquility and Concord.......................................................................

Journal of Rural Development

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly

Dialectics and Humanism, 1984

Journal of Rural Development, Sep 30, 2019

Peace & Change, Jul 1, 1984

Paulist Press eBooks, 1986

Man and world, Dec 1, 1983

Proceedings of the XXIV International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology (SHE), 2022

Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 1982

Journal of Rural Development

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly

Dialectics and Humanism, 1984

The central thesis of this paper is that Gandhi's model of rational inquiry provides the key to a... more The central thesis of this paper is that Gandhi's model of rational inquiry provides the key to addressing the existential crises that are being created by the dominant, current models of economic, political and technological reasoning. Part one sketches defining features of the current models of reasoning and the problems they have. It argues that: A.) they are monological (and so exclude data and voices that are essential to understanding reality) and B.) they presuppose a value " free " or " neutral " conception of reason (and so are committed to a moral relativism which means bribe, coercion and violence are the only ultimate sanctions to secure agreement in practical affairs). Part two sketches the principal features of Gandhi's satyagraha showing it is a dialogical process of practical rational inquiry which can discover emergent objective moral truth and bear witness to it in ways that are effective in securing rational consent and enforcing rational, moral norms in non-‐ violent ways. As such, it provides ways to solve the problems of the current dominant models. Part three develops some examples of the ways in which satyagraha can and should be applied to the three existential crises focused on in this paper. It offers general sketches of the Gandhian alternatives to our current " civilized " forms of economic, political and technological rationality. It also offers some specific proposals for initiatives that might be undertaken to develop and institutionalize these in systematic ways at the global level as part of genuinely civilized global culture of peace. The proposals include resource allocation initiatives that could fund the change, legal strategies that could provide a basis for institutionalizing principals of moral truth as the foundations for an international system of justice, and legislative strategies for incarnating morality in the artificial intelligence systems and corporations that increasingly dominate our planet. Introduction Three of the existential problems we humans face prompt fundamental questions about our rationality as a species. First, we are profoundly altering the climate of our planet and causing the sixth great extinction of its wealth of species. What could we be thinking? Second, we are amassing weapons and using them in cycles of violence that threaten to escalate to mass destruction. Third, we are

Smarter Planet or Wiser Earth? Dialogue and Collaboration in the Era of Artificial Intelligence, 2023

This book shows how to place a different conception of rationality at the center of our individua... more This book shows how to place a different conception of rationality at the center of our individual lives and shared institutions. It conceives of rationality as collaborative dialogue that can make us not only smarter but wiser. Research on negotiation, group problem solving, conflict transformation, and peacemaking has discovered strategies for this second way of reasoning. It is exemplified by Gandhian satyagraha, Quaker communal discernment, Indigenous ways of knowing, and a variety of well studied methods of conflict resolution. The book describes systematic ways to use this second practice of rationality to transform our ethics, economics, politics, and technology. We can integrate the values, legacies, and complementary forms of intelligence found in human traditions, natural organisms, and machine systems to promote a more just, convivial, ecologically sustainable, and spiritually nourishing world. Nonviolent methods of moral experimentation, can guide that work through discerning, demonstrating and defending emergent objective values.
Chapter Six radically reframes research on AI by returning to the paper in which Alan Turing laid out the modern Standard Model for computers as “Turing Machines”. It shows how Turing also included cryptic but seminal suggestions for developing an alternative model of AI as a “Turing Child”. Major breakthroughs in technology are moving us towards this second conception of AI and the five strategies for dialogical programming described here.
Th book provides detailed examples and a guiding vision of how to transform our practices of rationality in each major arena of life in order to make our way down paths towards a Wiser Earth.