Michael Levin’s Allusion to Ethical & Social Frameworks
"but also for development of ethical/social frameworks that will become essential in the future"
The goal is not to anthropomorphize physical systems but rather to provide a naturalized, continuous view of cognition across its spectrum by approaches grounded in developmental biology and evolution. All of this work is being synthesized towards a framework for understanding and relating to (whether by communication or control) truly diverse intelligences – a project that has implications not only for evolutionary biology and someday perhaps, exobiology, but also for development of ethical/social frameworks that will become essential in the future as the forms of agents around us diversify far beyond what is currently imaginable.
Dr. Michael Levin (emphasis added)
Michael Levin’s work in general, and particularly his professional lab website, is an inspiration on many fronts. You may also be delighted to find out he is creating a blog for less formal writings at https://thoughtforms.life.
I continue to come back to the last section on his Research page, particularly the final sentence. I think there is a retrospective (unfortunately not retroactive) impact on these understandings that highlights the lacking of previous ethical frameworks and systems as well.
It’s easier to see the granular disparity the more total alternatives and diachronic landscape that can be referenced.
From lab site of @drmichaellevin https://drmichaellevin.org/research/
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For an update on Levin's meaning, check out: Unconventional Embodiments of Consciousness: a diverse intelligence research program - Michael Levin.
This condensed short that Levin recently released: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Tk7RZjmuiWs
Full talk: https://youtu.be/CXzaq4_MEV8?si=dFA_dDOkHxzeWIvq