There are some ways “to be natural” by technology. Humanoid-robots or CG is approaching to “the natural” from 100% artificial, a combination of metals or a drawing in computers, while biotechnology is starting from altering and manipulating existing nature. Which approach can be comfortable for people’s mentality? What kinds of “fear” are there in approach to the “untouchable” nature? There are difficulties of ethics in artificial natural.,
The “uncanny valley” is the term used by robotics-scientists or computer graphic designers to describe “the unnerving feeling that occurs when something looks and acts much like a human, but quite clearly isn't” [1]. Even though people know it is artificial, they unconsciously recognise quite human like robots or CG as a real human. However, at the same time, they can perceive a little unnaturalness, which makes the “uncanny” feeling. As examples, recent humanoid robots or ‘Gollum’ in the film ‘The Lord of the Ring’ and intended-unnatural character of ‘Mr. Incredible’ are usually mentioned. To recreate human being is a kind of untouchable fields for human, even though they do not have “life” and outside of the problems about human-rights.
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/10/technology-to-creep-you-out.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCPgJ39-oUI&NR=1
In ‘The Politics of The Artificial”, idea of “simulacra” or “Goddess” is used for considering the division of nature and human [2]. I, from eastern country, actually feel uncanny from the video above but sometimes I hear that western countries have more mental resistance for humanoid robot rather than biotechnology while eastern countries are opposite of them because of the cultural difference from religions. It is a non academic myth but at least we should remark there are some levels of ethics from global common to local common.
The ethics for artificial natural is an unclear field and tends to be more subjective because it more relies on people’s psychological matters rather than physical problems such as environmental disruptions. How can we draw the border line between “touchable” and “untouchable” in the nature by various senses of ethics and will it be interruption for our further positive/negative development for “Spaceship Earth”?
[1] ”Technology to creep you out” <http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/10/technology-to-creep-you-out.html> (accessed on 05 March 2008)
[2] Margolin, Victor. The Politics of the Artificial p.107-120. (London: University of Chicago Press, Ltd., 2002)
“The Uncanny Valley”
<http://www.arclight.net/~pdb/nonfiction/uncanny-valley.html> (accessed on 05 March 2008)
The “uncanny valley” is the term used by robotics-scientists or computer graphic designers to describe “the unnerving feeling that occurs when something looks and acts much like a human, but quite clearly isn't” [1]. Even though people know it is artificial, they unconsciously recognise quite human like robots or CG as a real human. However, at the same time, they can perceive a little unnaturalness, which makes the “uncanny” feeling. As examples, recent humanoid robots or ‘Gollum’ in the film ‘The Lord of the Ring’ and intended-unnatural character of ‘Mr. Incredible’ are usually mentioned. To recreate human being is a kind of untouchable fields for human, even though they do not have “life” and outside of the problems about human-rights.
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/10/technology-to-creep-you-out.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCPgJ39-oUI&NR=1
In ‘The Politics of The Artificial”, idea of “simulacra” or “Goddess” is used for considering the division of nature and human [2]. I, from eastern country, actually feel uncanny from the video above but sometimes I hear that western countries have more mental resistance for humanoid robot rather than biotechnology while eastern countries are opposite of them because of the cultural difference from religions. It is a non academic myth but at least we should remark there are some levels of ethics from global common to local common.
The ethics for artificial natural is an unclear field and tends to be more subjective because it more relies on people’s psychological matters rather than physical problems such as environmental disruptions. How can we draw the border line between “touchable” and “untouchable” in the nature by various senses of ethics and will it be interruption for our further positive/negative development for “Spaceship Earth”?
[1] ”Technology to creep you out” <http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/10/technology-to-creep-you-out.html> (accessed on 05 March 2008)
[2] Margolin, Victor. The Politics of the Artificial p.107-120. (London: University of Chicago Press, Ltd., 2002)
“The Uncanny Valley”
<http://www.arclight.net/~pdb/nonfiction/uncanny-valley.html> (accessed on 05 March 2008)
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