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Este artículo estudia el chat-bot LaMDA desarrollado por Google y la experiencia del ingeniero B. Lemoine, todo lo cual pone de manifiesto un problema: ¿puede la vida artificial sentir? Las discusiones habidas hasta la fecha se sientan, abierta o tácitamente, en la prueba de Turing (1950) centrada en la inteligencia. Este artículo destaca la fenomenología sobre cualquier otra aproximación al tema. LaMDA no (simplemente) piensa; mucho mejor, siente. Se trata de una persona sintiente. El tema sensible es el de la complejidad de la mente. Argumento que la sensación y/o los sentimientos son ya actos cognitivos por sí mismos.

By and large, bioethics is concerned with life, i.e. understanding and explaining the living beings both as-they-are and as-they-could-be. The hard core here is global bioethics, which is a wider and richer domain than clinical bioethics. Global bioethics, it is claimed, stands very much along the way of the sciences of complexity – as an understanding of increasingly complex systems and behaviors. This paper explores the relationship between bioethics and complexity science. Thanks to such an appraisal a landscape appears additionally about the relationship with other sciences and disciplines. The hardcore for such interplay is the concern about life, i.e. the living beings. This paper argues that thanks to the interplay between bioethics and complexity theory, science and technology in general can harness from bioethics, and provides arguments about it. Firstly, it is shown that a right understanding of bioethics entails a distance with clinical bioethics. According to its very origins, bioethics is to be viewed as a sincere concern with life in general. Therefore, the developments from bioethics as a bridge on to global bioethics, and even to deep bioethics are shown and highlighted. This understanding impedes any reductionism of bioethics – which can be named here as “normal bioethics”. On this ground, complexity science is depicted in general terms, and a panorama of links and relations among bioethics and other sciences and disciplines is sketched. The main argument then goes that a solid even though basic understanding of life is needed in order to cope with the challenges and opportunities around us all. This, we claim, is both an ethical and an epistemological demand., Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics, Núm. 13 (2022): Issue 13

Resumen El objetivo del presente trabajo fue presentar una serie de casos de COVID-19 con manifestaciones atípicas de la enfermedad. Los casos fueron atendidos por un equipo interdisciplinario de personal de la salud de una clínica de cuarto nivel en Barranquilla, Colombia, y posteriormente los investigadores tomaron los datos de las historias clínicas. Se evaluaron tres casos: el primero tuvo evolución tórpida y coinfección con virus de la influenza H1N1 y los otros dos, manifestaciones gastrointestinales como debut de la enfermedad; todos tuvieron desenlace satisfactorio. La pandemia por SARS-CoV-2 cada día cobra más vidas, por lo que para identificar oportunamente a los infectados y tomar medidas tanto terapéuticas como de prevención y así evitar la propagación de la enfermedad y lograr su control, es necesario realizar reportes de caso en donde se evidencie la diversa variedad de presentaciones de COVID-19. Abstract The objective of this work is to present a series of cases of COVID-19 with atypical manifestations of the disease. The cases were evaluated by an interdisciplinary team of health personnel from a fourth-level clinic in Barranquilla, Colombia, and the data was subsequently taken from the clinical history of each patient. Three cases were evaluated, initially the first case with torpid evolution, coinfection with H1N1 influenza virus, however, with satisfactory outcome, and cases two and three with gastrointestinal manifestations as disease debut, with satisfactory evolution. The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic takes more lives every day, so it is necessary to describe the cases and their diverse variety of presentation, to identify the infected and take both therapeutic and preventive measures. To prevent the spread of the disease and achieve its control.

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