What is "democracy" and what does it have to do with "doing science" or "practicing medicine"?
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What is "democracy" and what does it have to do with "doing science" or "practicing medicine"?
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The emergence of advanced digital technologies is a feature of our minds, bodies, and world that could facilitate the democratic distribution of opportunities. Opportunities, not the least of which include things like scientific exploration, knowledge production, and knowledge application.
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However, we're not usually aware of how this technology can be leveraged. The universal human right to participate in science and engineering is an idea that is understated and an application that individuals don't often exercise. Maybe there is a tendency to think or believe that only institutional entities and their direct constituents possess the unique intellectual capacities and practical resources that are required to produce epistemic and technological goods. But buying into this notion--the notion that the means of the production of knowledge is held by an intellectually “elite” few is--firstly, just theoretically flawed--and secondly, in practice, it serves to disproportionately place decision making power and access into the hands of those who are more likely to prioritize their own perceived social or economic growth.
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If and when this happens, it follows that the accrual of these abstract "knowledge credits" functions to feed individualistic desires, rather than desires that benefit the whole group. Left unchecked, this compromises the frequency of cooperative engagement with others, novel propositional ideas, and solution focused ventures. In the long run, it undermines the entire scientific enterprise in the sense that the system just perpetuates the inequities and harms that “science” and “technology” are supposed to mitigate. So how do we steer the ship differently?
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We’re all part of this problem--regardless of what you think you can or cannot do--
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--therefore, we’re all part of minimizing it.
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So, in order to solve, what do we need to identify?
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What do we need to structurally alter in order to bring about functional change?
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Examples could include things of varied dimensions and scales. For example, we could look at problematic psychological phenomena (individual level phenomenon) or "sociopolitical” dynamics (macro or population level phenomenon) that limit access to accredited education systems...
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