Sentences with phrase «on human autonomy»

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Canada's digital privacy laws should focus on preventing «concrete harm,» not abstract concepts of autonomy and human dignity, and should minimize the compliance burden on businesses, according to a new report from the Macdonald - Laurier Institute for Public Policy.

In his landmark book on human motivation, Drive, Dan Pink makes a case that true motivation consists of three elements — autonomy, mastery, and purpose.

The development of a robust autonomous system that does not require a human to take over (level 4 autonomy), then, depends greatly on building out the capabilities of the other sensors.

This «moral reading» of the Constitution calls on judges to act as moral philosophers: «equal protection of the laws» should mean what best promotes «equal concern and respect» for all humans; «liberty» in the «due process» clause should mean autonomy in matters important to personal development, and so forth.

One can see recent standoffs in Geneva on so - called traditional values resolutions as manifestations of a conflict between two rival conceptions of human dignity: one, supported by most Western advocates, that focuses on individual autonomy; and the other, proposed by voices from the global East and South, that focuses on traditional understandings of human nature.

Marx held the view that dependence on a transcendent God and full human autonomy are incompatible.

In the West, human freedom has not, of course, always been understood in terms of individual autonomy (cf. the thought of St. Augustine and John Calvin on this point); and there is some evidence that the modern individualistic understanding of freedom is fundamentally responsible for some of our present cultural difficulties.

The line of human progress up till now has been «the forming and re-forming of communities on the basis of growing personal independence» — «functional autonomy, mutual recognition and mutual responsibility.»

God puts a restraint on the autonomy and therefore the potential or the human being.

The crucial significance of religious humanism for new turns in religious thought consists in its illumination of radical freedom / autonomy as the essence of human reality and its program to construct a systematic theology / philosophy on the exclusively anthropological foundation of the functional ultimacy of humankind as the theological singular.

Poor nations, insisting on their human rights of autonomy and self - control, rightfully resent outside identification of their problems and «proper» solutions dictated by developed nations, however well intentioned.

Modernity is represented by three forces - first, the revolution in the relation of humanity to nature, signified by science and technology; second, the revolutionary changes in the concept of justice in the social relations between fellow human beings indicated by the self - awakening of all oppressed and suppressed humans to their fundamental human rights of personhood and peoplehood, especially to the values of liberty and equality of participation in power and society; thirdly, the break - up of the traditional integration of state and society with religion, in response to religious pluralism on the one hand and the affirmation of the autonomy of the secular realm from the control of religion on the other».

He did not merely copy Democritus» physics, as was commonly thought, but introduced the idea of spontaneity into the movement of the atoms, and to the Democritus world of inanimate nature ruled by mechanical laws he added a world of animate nature in which the human will operated.9 Marx thus favours the views of Epicurus for two reasons: firstly, his emphasis on absolute autonomy of the human spirit has freed human beings from all superstitions of transcendent objects; secondly, the emphasis on «free individual self - consciousness» shows one way of going beyond the system of a «total philosophy».

Yet giving the fetus legal human rights infringes on the mother's right to her own bodily autonomy.

Her art work is primarily focused on human rights themes and in particular the human rights of women and the need for bodily autonomy.

Human spaceflight researchers believe crew autonomy will be critical on a Mars mission, mostly because of the hundreds of millions of miles that will delay communications.

The emphasis with robots is on their autonomy, cognitive capacities, strategy for cooperation and in the interaction with their human colleagues».

With reliable autonomy and collision avoidance, drones can begin to take on tasks too dangerous or remote for humans to carry out: checking electric power lines, for example, or delivering medical supplies in an emergency.

Missy Cummings, a former Navy fighter pilot and director of Duke University's Humans and Autonomy Laboratory, defines «on the loop» as human supervisory control: «intermittent human operator interaction with a remote, automated system in order to manage a controlled process or task environment.»

Volvo plans its test of Level 4 autonomy on about 31 miles of highway in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2017 and wants to next test somewhere in the U.S. California's Department of Motor Vehicles put the kibosh on that late last year when it issued operator rules for autonomous vehicles that require human drivers to always be in control.

Gragl starts with a useful reflection on the need for a whole book on this subject, which leads him to set out his research question: Can accession and the system of human rights protection under the Convention be effectively reconciled with the autonomy of EU law, and if so, how?

And as Margaret Somerville, the founding director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University says, the debate comes down to a direct conflict between the value of respect for human life, on the one hand, and individuals» rights to autonomy and self determination — the value of «choice» — on the other.

On the issue of human rights, the majority accepted that the issue was within the scope of the ECHR, art 8 in relation to autonomy and dignity rights.

Baroness Hale agreed with this and furthered her argument on the grounds of the fundamental common law values of autonomy, equality and human dignity.

It should be noted that humans had to assist the robot in certain tasks here and there, but that's to be expected; it's supervised autonomy, after all — humans need to be on hand in case technical difficulties crop up, like a power failure or failed part.

The CCW should articulate first and foremost a legal commitment to ensuring meaningful human control and a constraint on the development of autonomy in the critical functions of weapons systems.

On 21 November 2012, the Department of Defense of the United States issued its first - ever policy on autonomy in weapons systems, requiring that a human always be «in - the - loop» when decisions are made about using lethal forcOn 21 November 2012, the Department of Defense of the United States issued its first - ever policy on autonomy in weapons systems, requiring that a human always be «in - the - loop» when decisions are made about using lethal forcon autonomy in weapons systems, requiring that a human always be «in - the - loop» when decisions are made about using lethal force.

Nearly all countries that spoke on this issue this year accepted that some form of human control must be maintained over future weapons systems, but they must be explicit about where they draw the line on increasing autonomy.

Unfortunately, placing blame on the operators and increasing the autonomy of the system may actually exacerbate coordinating the activities of human and robotic agents.

«Only through objective scientific analysis of new versions of current systems on the cusp of autonomy and their potential extensions can we can determine if such systems are under appropriate human control» said Professor Noel Sharkey, chair of ICRAC, a group of scientific experts that independently assess weapons technologies to determine where they lie on the spectrum of autonomy.

These could include, inter alia, the ability of a fully autonomous system to conform to existing law (including international humanitarian law, human rights law or general international law); potential problems associated with the design of future fully autonomous weapons that could require disarmament action, or the ethical limits to robotic autonomy in deciding on the life or death of a human, to quote just a few.»