Desirable Ethics

摘要

My intention has been to show there are implications we can find in the four (second-order) cybernetic devices Ⅰ have introduced, which require behaviours that match those qualities many would consider desirable, matching what we would think of as our human ideal (in a fairly timeless manner). In this sense, these are ethical qualities, quite in contra-distinction to those, usually rather mean-spirited qualities so popularly argued today by others. But the argumentation Ⅰ have used is not only the conventional one in which Ⅰ derive these as a logical consequences of pushing our growing knowledge, but also an argument in terms of the better choice. Ⅰ am saying that cybernetics gives us devices that imply a world that matches our better aspirations, whereas in the main, other approaches lead towards much worse aspirations. Ⅰ would claim this is a good argument: one that supports a view of life which aspires to our better desires.