Abstract:

In order to develop civilization, philosophy must take the lead. The advance in quantum mechanics may change the thinking of philosophers in a brand-new way. We live at a great age with the transformation from “knowledge is power” to “thinking is power”. At this age of the “transformation from knowledge to wisdom”, quantum thinking brings us power above all. The more developed is science and technology, the more important is ethics, for ethics is the intrinsic requirement of science and technology. Applied ethics, including scientific and technological ethics, should not be the application of general moral principles in specific fields, but should be new ethics corresponding to the change of today’s world. Besides daily life experience, scientific experiment is also an important source to develop ethics at this scientific and technological age. It is necessary for applied ethics in particular and ethics in general to envisage the achievement of scientific experiment. Virtual reality, big data, computer modeling, knowledge graph and even metaverse have already become or may become a new method or a new perspective of ethic research. To pay close attention to humans and to think how humans become a species possessing infinite care and at the same time going beyond the limitation of the self and that of the earth at the age of highly developed science and technology are the sacred mission of scientific and technological ethics for the future.

Key words: quantum theory, quantum thinking, scientific and technological ethics, transformation from knowledge to wisdom