moral decision making
when we are making decisions, we are running not only thought experiments but somatic feeling experiments as well—how is it going to feel if this happens?—and this combination is the goal in moral decision making.
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“No way I’d push someone onto the trolley tracks; it’s just wrong” is about the Amygdala, insular cortex (insula), and Ventromedial PFC. “Sacrifice one life to save five, sure” is the dorsolateral PFC. But do long-term strategic consequentialism, and all those regions are engaged.
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If you’re a fan of moral intuitions, you’d frame them as being foundational and primordial. If you don’t like them, you’d present them as simplistic, reflexive, and primitive […]
They are the end products of learning; they are cognitive conclusions to which we have been exposed so often that they have become automatic,
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Our guts learn their intuitions.
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see also
The Trolley Problem
Simulating the Future
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