DataSheet5_Open optimism as an “embodied-health” ethic for the information era.pdf

This article forms part of a series on “openness,” “non-linearity,” and “embodied-health” in the post-physical, informational (virtual) era of society. This is vital given that the threats posed by advances in artificial intelligence call for a holistic, embodied approach. Typically, health is separated into different categories, for example, (psycho)mental health, biological/bodily health, genetic health, environmental health, or reproductive health. However, this separation only serves to undermine health; there can be no separation of health into subgroups (psychosomatics, for example). Embodied health contains no false divisions and relies on “optimism” as the key framing value. Optimism is only achieved through the mechanism/enabling condition of openness. Openness is vital to secure the embodied health for individuals and societies. Optimism demands that persons become active participants within their own lives and are not mere blank slates, painted in the colors of physical determinism (thus a move away from nihilism—which is the annihilation of freedom/autonomy/quality). To build an account of embodied health, the following themes/aims are analyzed, built, and validated: (1) a modern re-interpretation and validation of German idealism (the crux of many legal–ethical systems) and Freud; (2) ascertaining the bounded rationality and conceptual semantics of openness (which underlies thermodynamics, psychosocial relations, individual autonomy, ethics, and as being a central constitutional governmental value for many regulatory systems); (3) the link between openness and societal/individual embodied health, freedom, and autonomy; (4) securing the role of individualism/subjectivity in constituting openness; (5) the vital role of nonlinear dynamics in securing optimism and embodied health; (6) validation of arguments using the methodological scientific value of invariance (generalization value) by drawing evidence from (i) information and computer sciences, (ii) quantum theory, and (iii) bio-genetic evolutionary evidence; and (7) a validation and promotion of the inalienable role of theoretic philosophy in constituting embodied health, and how modern society denigrates embodied health, by misconstruing and undermining theoretics. Thus, this paper provides and defends an up-to-date non-physical account of embodied health by creating a psycho-physical–biological–computational–philosophical construction. Thus, this paper also brings invaluable coherence to legal and ethical debates on points of technicality from the empirical sciences, demonstrating that each field is saying the same thing.

本文属于探讨后物理时代、信息化（虚拟）社会中「开放性」「非线性」与「具身健康（embodied-health）」的系列研究之一。鉴于人工智能技术进步所带来的各类风险亟需采用整体化、具身化的研究路径，因此本研究的意义尤为关键。传统上，健康常被划分为不同类别，例如（心理）精神健康、生物/躯体健康、遗传健康、环境健康或生殖健康。但这种分类方式实则会损害健康的完整性；健康本就无法被割裂为不同子领域（如心身医学范畴）。具身健康摒弃一切虚假的分类，以「乐观主义」作为核心构建理念，而乐观主义唯有通过「开放性」这一机制/支撑条件方能实现。开放性对于保障个体与社会的具身健康至关重要。乐观主义要求个体成为自身生活的积极参与者，而非任由物理决定论涂抹的「白板」——这也意味着摒弃虚无主义，后者实则是对自由、自主与生命质量的消解。

为构建具身健康的理论体系，本文对以下主题/目标展开分析、构建与验证：(1) 对德国唯心主义（诸多法律伦理体系的核心根基）与弗洛伊德理论进行现代性重新阐释与验证；(2) 明确开放性的有限理性与概念语义内涵——该内涵支撑着热力学、社会心理关系、个体自主、伦理体系，并作为核心宪政价值被诸多监管体系所采纳；(3) 厘清开放性与社会/个体具身健康、自由及自主之间的关联；(4) 确立个人主义/主体性在构建开放性过程中的关键作用；(5) 阐明非线性动力学在实现乐观主义与具身健康过程中的核心价值；(6) 通过从以下三方面汲取证据，基于不变性（泛化价值）这一科学方法论准则验证相关论点：(i) 信息与计算机科学；(ii) 量子理论；(iii) 生物遗传进化证据；(7) 验证并阐发理论哲学在构建具身健康过程中不可替代的作用，同时剖析现代社会如何通过误解与贬低理论哲学来诋毁具身健康。

据此，本文通过构建一套心-物-生物-计算-哲学的综合框架，提出并论证了一套与时俱进的非物理视角下的具身健康理论。此外，本文还为经验科学领域技术细节相关的法律与伦理辩论提供了极具价值的逻辑连贯性，证明各学科领域的核心观点实则殊途同归。