This edited volume provides strategies for reducing inequality and promoting human development through the use of innovative digital technology and the adoption of new bioethical principles for governance. The book is structured around a series of practical proposals which can be adapted to different circumstances, countries, and political systems. Written by an interdisciplinary panel of international researchers and professionals, each chapter details a proposal for a policy—new social technology, Green Deals, robust social assistance—that will move society forward towards a sustainable, digital, and equitable future. Researchers across multiple disciplines--public administration, cognitive technology, E-learning, finance, philosophy of economy, agronomics, forest engineering, bioethics and education—will find this volume a useful reference.

Issues concerning the unity of minds, bodies and the world have often recurred in the history of philosophy and, more recently, in scientific models. Taking into account both the philosophical and scientific knowledge about consciousness, this book presents and discusses some theoretical guiding ideas for the science of consciousness. The authors argue that, within this interdisciplinary context, a consensus appears to be emerging assuming that the conscious mind and the functioning brain are two aspects of a complex system that interacts with the world. How can this concept of reality - one that includes the existence of consciousness - be approached both philosophically and scientifically? The Unity of Mind, Brain and World is the result of a three-year online discussion between the authors who present a diversity of perspectives, tending towards a theoretical synthesis, aimed to contribute to the insertion of this field of knowledge in the academic curriculum.