Statement of reasons for the promotion of proactive interpersonal and inter-institutional synergy.

Epistemic management of neurotechnologies, information technology and areas of law linked to them in times of Complex System.

Eduardo Terranova

Background

In our scientific, professional and research career, which has run in parallel although with close ties with academia, but maintaining a profile of operational freedom and corporate frameworks, we have had the immense fortune of having been in the front row in the development arena of the IV Industrial Revolution, which began in the 1980s.

In this context, we have been very close observers and actors in several instances of this milestone of humanity in the postmodern era.

During this time, global society has been consolidated as such and a process of deconstruction and reconstruction of universal paradigms that have accompanied us since classical antiquity, but that as a consequence of the postwar period and the consumerist explosion of the social society model, has been defined. Western middle class has pushed the creation of currents of thought and corporate actions that have been evolving exponentially with the consequent vortex trajectory that encompasses us and makes us lose sight of the ontological location of individuals and the paradigms of development and lifestyle. .

Never before has humanity lived with such ease and with so much access to goods and services, democratizing access and use of them in a way never seen before, whether for better or worse. The exercise of freedom, although not necessarily responsible freedom, has been considered the supreme good of humanity and a fundamental objective to be achieved in subjugated societies or with limited freedoms.

Capitalism, understood as a philosophical entity, has endured, expanded and generated conditions of human growth never seen before, making it accessible to all sectors of society throughout the world. This does not mean that the alarming presence of populations subjected and immersed in deplorable living conditions is denied, but if we analyze it with past historical eras, inequality has been drastically reduced since the advent of globalized trade and capitalism as the predominant system.

Republican democracy and capitalism properly understood, have proven to be the best of the systems exercised by humanity. However, the good use and management of both requires a high level of enlightenment and great civic responsibility of citizens in the most essential of concepts.

The years following the Second World War have seen unprecedented development of industry and commerce, thanks to universal access to goods, services and education.

The growth and exploitation of the environment began explosively since the first industrial revolution in the 18th century and never stopped or slowed down.

Today we are experiencing the consequences of the environmental impact that this exploitation turned into predation has generated.

The productive workforce of societies has ceased to be an essential activity in terms of its nature (designed to generate vital consumption products, food, health and education) and has become second, third and fourth order jobs. They respond to maintaining industrial, commercial systems (emporia and consortia), bankers, Science and technology (Applied with increasing emphasis on the generation of wealth and mass and economic consumption products: converted into stock market products per se regardless of the complexity technological scientist that they represent).

Societies are becoming more sophisticated in terms of their labor productive network, closely integrated into the intrinsic processes of the industries/mass productive systems and their corollary environments, where a paradox is demonstrated, which consists of an apparent training requirement of workers to maintain the current and operational system, sustainable and constantly growing. This supposed specialization has actually been transformed into specific discrete activities detached from any capacity for a holistic vision of knowledge, where the generation of knowledge and subsequent enlightenment has been exchanged for specific training, for training for specific discrete and individual activities, which It is part of an arithmetic sum of them to form a global productive system.?

In short, society must work to keep the system in constant growth and “in a sustainable manner”, in order to be able to maintain its source of supplies for daily life in the consumer society.

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Notwithstanding the above, we do not deny sustainable development or the advantages of scientific and technological developments, of which we have been early users. But we understand that it is crucial to carry out a sincere diagnosis of the situation of global society and ours in particular, since we have seen, by being part of this same development described in previous paragraphs, that an essential epistemological fissure is being generated in society that can have disastrous consequences for the short-term future, since the process of closing the evolutionary cycle has already been triggered.

Main reasons for the deterioration of postmodern societies:

• Deconstruction of paradigms:

• Reconstruction and neo-minority vision of the activity of responsible and sustainable society in real terms.

?Universal factors of global social impact:

For most of the emerging problems in society, particularly Uruguayan There are factors that are structurally repeated and that are the genesis of the specific developments that are subsequently derived in their particular fields, but when talking about prevention of established problems, the existence and activity inherent to these universal factors and generic.

?Generic Factors:

1. History / constituents: The combination of French enlightenment and British technology at the dawn of the republic has been a transcendental and unique factor or at least very little repeated (one could except the Belgian society that had the same founding conception) and its same mentor (Lord Ponsomby , 1770 - 1855). This extremely prolific and differential combination with respect to the rest of the contingent, placed Uruguay in an advanced position, even without having been planned by its own local society. Having received this unexpected cultural heritage, Uruguayan society was early favored by a situation of social, cultural and intellectual development that stood out, with a hybrid vigor compared to that of its Hispanic American peers.??

The early industrial development and its comparative advantage during the development of the two world wars, placed Uruguay and its society in a comfort zone that is uncommon in the region.

The large industries and services of Anglo-Saxon origin, the French school heir to the Napoleonic Enlightenment and then its devotion and dependence in the construction of the country's cultural and intellectual educational apparatus towards France, generated a kind of global well-being for which perhaps the predominant population (Montevidean) was not maturely prepared.

The inevitable consequence when this happens was the progressive deterioration of cultural and industrial structures, which deteriorated during the century until their collapse began in the 60s.

The reaction with increasing impact was to try to reactivate industry, commerce and, in terms of education, progressively convert it into a direct instrument for the generation of skills for work or the execution of tasks in a global system that is taken from foreign paradigms, from industrialized countries with direct influence on our economy (United States of America); and neo-ideological paradigms of post-war Europe coming from feudal industrialism that generated the emergence of ideologies that are misnamed in our latitudes and times: left-wing. All this combined with the direct French republican influence and a universalized concept of freedom that remained in parallel with the concept of indigenous maroon freedom and sui generis of “ORIENTALIDAD” society (Term that identifies the Uruguayan nation, arising from Artiguismo). To this curious socio/anthropological phenomenon, we must add the complex of denial of the original cultural difference first and European cultural differences later, which were very different from the rest of Latin America; difference, however, that was resisted by the national intellectuality that continued to be formed in the French school but intended not to intellectually betray the mother country of Spain; and a continental brotherhood never embodied and always invoked, despite the ancestral division that has always existed from the native peoples to this day. This kind of dual and even schizoid behavior according to some intellectuals, among whom a contrary reference is Jose E. Rodó (1871 - 1917), a fervent defender of “Americanness” was also dazzled by the light of a flame fueled by desire instead of objective reality.?

This explosive combination culminated in our days with the ideological polarization of the training systems of people in educational systems appropriate to the political trend of the moment.

As a consequence of the action of this factor, we have a population highly dependent on the state and with increasingly less categorized jobs and people with increasingly rudimentary training.?

1. Educational and training processes of people. Where have they evolved?:

Disruptive factors on society

1. Mass management through the use of information processed by AI. The decrease in literacy and loss of reading comprehension capacity of the population with a transversal and global deleterious effect, makes people susceptible to being manipulated through this technology. The first consequence is epistemic disruption, which causes the population to progressively lack the capacity for rational discernment when making decisions or following collective trends that may even be harmful to society as a whole.
2. Use of information by massive BIG DATA macro processing systems linked to people. At this point it is necessary to address two areas: One of them linked to the appropriate use and also the abuse of the manipulation of personal information with the capacity to exert influence of any kind, through neurotechnology. For this, it is necessary to consider necessary and transcendent ethical and legal aspects, which require a deep knowledge of the potential and real effects of technology, to avoid the generation of new sources of epistemic disruption, as already happened at the time with the issue of human cloning arising from the sequencing of the human genome.

The other aspect refers to the generation of pseudoscientific currents that arise from the epistemic disruption itself and spread throughout society. with great efficiency, where the prefix “neuro” is placed on almost everything, without any relationship or link or even any knowledge about the universe of the neuron.

1. Generation and propagation of the concept of Transhumanism: We put this title as a final summary of a long and complex process that begins in much more basic aspects, but that ultimately leads to that final and grandiloquent conception that some intellectuals take for granted in the future. Firstly, it is necessary to raise the initial problem, which is that of the erroneous substitutive competition between artificial and human intelligence, since this statement implies denial of the true concept of intelligence in its essentially ontological aspect. Secondly, the supposed competition between the working man and technology is fallacious whenever the basic existential problem is not addressed, which is the progressive loss of intellectuality and enlightenment of people due to historical shortcomings in the educational system, as well as structural deterioration of society generated by the sociocultural factors exposed at the beginning that have been evolving long before neurotechnologies were established as a threatening factor.??
2. The fallacious concept of Singularity is a distorting and deforming factor of the analytical vision of phenomena that, if it were not present, this singularity would be nothing more than the closing of the cycle of evolution of a species that never adapted to form a unique and unique community. global parthenogenetic such as a swarm of bees moving through the universe.?

Factors to consider to promote the development of information technology, robotics, mechatronics, bionics, neurotechnology and of course Artificial Intelligence.??

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Since its beginnings, humanity has created technology to facilitate its actions conceived by the minds of its individuals to make its inventions viable and observe and manage its scientific discoveries, so now it will be no different. The only problem in our understanding that is easily objectifiable but perhaps not so easy to resolve in reality, is that its development has been so explosive that it becomes a source of light that blinds the vision of more subtle points that remain below the line of base of its light and can act as a candle flame that attracts a moth to its…

Scientific knowledge, for its part, has not grown compared to technological knowledge and basically we do not know more than we did hundreds of years ago; The difference is that now, thanks to technology, we can manage it effectively.? We can better observe, manipulate and operate with things that were previously only conceivable in theory. So much so that we have practiced and seen practiced the paradigm of Innovation in Renewal.

Technology today is absolutely essential for the very sustenance of human life on the planet, so we are embarking on a one-way journey.

The crucial point is to address the emerging challenges as a result of its impact and omnipresence, which involve exclusively training responsible free-thinking individuals, since an artificial intelligence system requires, as a sine qua non, people with a high degree of enlightenment and intellectual versatility.

Measures to suggest to combat the deleterious effects established in global and individual society

Taking into account the observation of the permanent and growing structural deterioration of society in the aspects of general cognition, enlightenment, education, values and responsible freedom. Considering also that these factors presented in this order of evolution generate the effects of:

• Trivialization of society
• Loss of discernment and decision-making capacity in relevant phenomena of daily life.
• Hyper Consumerism
• Deculturalization and ontological misrepresentation of the concept of culture
• Loss of ethical values due to ignorance of their existence
• Development of the subculture of easy consumption and the customary rejection of personal training and education/training to carry out any task
• Loss of relationship between income and real personal productive capacity

The direct consequence of these transversal factors at this point in all socio-cultural and economic strata has been the common trunk of complex causes of the overwhelming presence of aberrant behaviors, namely:

1. General violence
2. Polarized attitudes and fanaticism based on distorted ideological assumptions, to the point of real ignorance of the bases on which they proclaim a motivator.
3. Vandalism behavior in hordes.
4. Domestic violence:
5. Rebellion without rational cause in the face of the imposition of rules of citizen coexistence
6. Epistemic disruption at global levels generated by sources that specifically generate them as a highly efficient instrument of massive manipulation.
7. Exponential increase and increasingly at an earlier age of addictions and problematic substance use; Endemic alcoholism and epidemic childhood and adolescent alcoholism.
8. Unschooling and in the best of cases, schooling with null results in terms of learning and applicability in the educational process of the person. Which leads to an unskilled workforce that is not adaptable to technological evolution.
9. Trivial and irresponsible participation in collective activities with general impact that have a negative impact on the collective with civic irresponsibility.
10. Loss of citizen quality that is not compatible with material poverty.

This decalogue of emerging factors over three decades of free fall, but which has been evolving insidiously for much longer, must be considered urgently and with real holistic criteria, since it is a single common trunk of predisposing and determining causes. that leads to the loss of freedom and responsibility, which is accompanied by the loss of the concept of nation.

Institutional Education, but the comprehensive training of the individual that must start from the families, must stop being a simple demagogic saying to become effective and executive, through direct measures that vertically address the requirements for the formation of knowledge, wisdom and citizenship, with a serious and responsible epistemological categorization that facilitates, independently of any type of ideological paradigm, the process of formation of the person.

From this point and in parallel or successively, other measures may be applied for the multiple systems that affect society, but the formation of enlightened citizenship is a sine qua non condition to make any other thinkable.?

Measures to address the optimization of cognitive management of the population

1. Incentive of Multimodal and Holistic training At all levels of socialization that begin in educational settings, they encompass work and general social settings.

The approach to multifunctionality and the interconnection of concepts encourages the integration of diverse areas of knowledge, allowing for a richer and more complete understanding of phenomena.?

1. Promotion of creativity and innovation:

Cognitive plasticity and the use of deductive algorithms as well as inductive/proactive processes encourage individuals to be creative and innovative, adapting to new situations and generating original solutions.

1. Development of critical thinking skills

The need to identify signs and signals, carry out continuous evaluations, promotes the development of critical and reflective thinking skills. Among many of its benefits, the optimal use of technological resources from Artificial Intelligence stands out, transforming them from mere dependent passive users into dynamic active users with unlimited growth potential by using this technology efficiently, for which it is necessary to have high degree of enlightenment on the part of the user and not the other way around as is spreading in common areas of groups.

1. Appreciation and assessment of narrative and language in learning at all levels:

The systematic and natural use of stories and narrative contexts in teaching makes learning more effective, engaging and easy, helping students and anyone in any context connect theoretical concepts with practical applications.

1. Criticism of the educational systems promoted since the advent of postmodernism:

A process of different intensity has been verified throughout the world in various societies, of the construction of the so-called academic or encyclopedist method, in favor of executive models of rapid action characterized by specific training to work and carry out equally specific and discreet activities even when they are deep. This model, under the slogan of early specialization, should actually be called mutilation of early cognitive ability. Well, the result is, in the best of cases, that problems are solved with the sum of unconnected specialists who are in contiguity but not in synergistic interaction, since they lack the integrative skills that they never received in said behaviorist model. The recovery of language as a neural, epistemological and practical foundation is the first bastion that must be urgently rebuilt and rescued.

There is no true constructivist science in ignorance of language, arts and magical thinking.

In short, it is necessary to effectively use technology, generate sustainability criteria based on intellectual honesty of social, industrial and educational political actors, which address the criteria of productivity, sustainable growth and effective and intelligent production.

It is essential to have technology? without fear or false popular mythologies.

It is equally essential to stop the structural social deterioration and train the new generations with intellectual capacities and enlightenment that reflect a holistic education to give plasticity, versatility and responsible freedom.

As in all human activity, with each action of the collective, legal and praiseworthy actions emerge, as well as other corrupt and harmful ones.

That is the primary reason for the need for the existence of law and intelligent legislation to be able to effectively regulate the technological activity of society, which is subject to a transcendent challenge: achieving the capacity to create the conditions to address the future.

We have coined the concept of generating “Ascending Three-Dimensional Networks” to represent proactive action at the level and from the field by each member of society in order to create actions with inductive criteria and proactivity to achieve synergy, not as a reaction agent to the situation of disadvantage or as an attitude of resilience, but to generate conditions of real growth and development based on a situation of intellectual flexibility to be able to clearly identify objectives and promote to the "macro" bodies the realistic solutions that emerge from their own source generative.

Dr. Eduardo Terranova, July, 2024