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Filtration Failure: On Selection for Societal Sanity
This paper focuses on the question of filtration through the perspective of “too
much information”. It concerns Western society within the context of new media
and digital culture. The main aim of this paper is to apply a philosophical reading
on the video game concept of Selection for Societal Sanity within the problematics
of cultural filtration, control of behaviors and desire, and a problematization of
trans-individuation that the selected narrative conveys. The idea of Selection for
Societal Sanity, which derives from the first postmodern video game Metal Gear
Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001), is applied into a philosophical framework based on
select concepts from Bernard Stiegler’s writing and incorporating them with
current events such as post-truth or fake news in order to explore the role of
techne and filtration within social organizations and individual psyches. Alternate
forms of behavior, which contest cultural paradigms, are re-problematized as
tension between calculability and incalculability, or market value versus social
bonding
Brain Death as the End of a Human Organism as a Self-moving Whole
The biophilosophic justification for the idea that “brain death” is death needs to support two claims: that what dies in human death is a human organism, not merely a psychological entity distinct from it; that total brain failure signifies the end of the human organism as a whole. Defenders of brain death typically assume without argument that the first claim is true and argue for the second by defending the “integrative unity” rationale. Yet the integrative unity rationale has fallen on hard times. In this article, I give reasons for why we should think of ourselves as organisms, and why the “fundamental work” rationale put forward by the 2008 President’s Council is better than the integrative unity rationale, despite persistent objections to it
The Experiences of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender People around End-of-Life Care
All States and Territories in Australia have implemented legislation relating to end-of-life decision-making and substitute judgment. However, reports to relevant legal and community services indicate that many gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) people in NSW -- estimated to be about four to five percent of the population -- are being denied their legal rights in the end-of-life care of their partners and other important people in their lives
Global Risks 2015, 10th Edition.
The 2015 edition of the Global Risks report completes a decade of highlighting the most significant long-term risks worldwide, drawing on the perspectives of experts and global decision-makers. Over that time, analysis has moved from risk identification to thinking through risk interconnections and the potentially cascading effects that result. Taking this effort one step further, this year's report underscores potential causes as well as solutions to global risks. Not only do we set out a view on 28 global risks in the report's traditional categories (economic, environmental, societal, geopolitical and technological) but also we consider the drivers of those risks in the form of 13 trends. In addition, we have selected initiatives for addressing significant challenges, which we hope will inspire collaboration among business, government and civil society communitie
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