Assumptions:
There is a set of core beliefs: Western, legal, liberal, democratic, and capitalistic.
This tradition is coming to an end.
New schools of thought appear with increasing frequency.
The process of learning is one of self-discovery.
The process of learning law is one of discovering where one stands in relation to social order and its values.
We think of law as rules, systems, norms, and processes.
Two big questions:
To what extent is there a global culture emerging driven by a set of global values because of English as a common language, the universality of certain products, etc.?
Is there a real or uniform human nature?
8,000,000 pages are added to the Internet each day...this blog is one of them. It was created today to capture the interesting content and my reactions to a class called Issues of Law, Policy, and Ethics in Global Technology at Suffolk University Law School.
What is consciousness?
The brain knows what is happening before the conscious mind knows it something has happened.
/Isn't this just an effect of the distance traveled along nerves?/
The brain constructs what the eye sees about half a second after the mind registers what it sees.
Web 2.0
User generated content, games and things like Second Life.
A hacker created virus in World of Warcraft killed 4,000,000 users and was studied by scientists to understand real epidemics.
How are legal disputes settled in the virtual world of Second Life?
How different is a conference call in real life to a meeting conducted in Second Life?
