Logical Openness and the Ethics of Globality

In this brief presentation we discuss the relationship between openness and ethics. More specifically, our focus here is one form of openness, logical openness, previously described [4, 5, 11, 12], and its relevance to globality. We use the term gloablity to mean the emergent state of the Earth as a result of the impact of humanity on its biosphere. In this regard, globalizing refers to the processes of human interaction with and engagement in the biosphere, which are currently being described and disseminated as the trends of humanity [1,7,8,9, 15], because of the apparent reproductive and survival success af homo sapiens. Undoubtedly, this success is transforming rapidly almost every aspect of the biosphere. Whether the transformations are desirable and beneficial is the ethical question.

(This piece is a collaboration of authors)