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From Morals to Ethics: Surviving the Current Backlash
The Huffington Post today raised an interesting question about ethics, asking whether white supremacists should be able to practice law, or whether the profession should eliminate people “who aren’t morally fit”. I suggest that the problem is a deeper one, one that lies in the fine distinction between morals and ethics. We should have transcended moral-based judgments. Since the rise of the governance wave pretty much every professional organisation comes with a code of ethics. However, recently, a backlash emerged that put financial optimisation back on top of the agenda, along with moral-based evaluation.
Posted , Author Dana Stoll
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Science and Religion: A Quest for Respect
Scriptures like the Bible or the Qur’an have little to offer for the atheist scientist. The atheist scientist has completely stopped to ask “Why?” questions and finds delight in investigating “How?” things work. He knows emergence, butterfly effects, how complexity may arise from almost nothing, and does not need transcendental explanations for human complexity or afterlife.
However, what has science to offer to people who did not give up “Why?” questions?
Posted , Author Dana Stoll
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Freud's Unconscious in Brief
Easy takeaway from this lecture of Jordan Peterson: Peterson claims that humans are not 100% rational, not everything is transparent to us. We do things that we don’t understand all the time. That … is the shortest precise definition of Freud’s “unconscious” I have heard yet.
Posted , Author Dana Stoll
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Human Gene Editing and Religious Concerns
The Religions say that you shouldn’t interfere with creation or God’s will. But. Even if you go down that road, then whatever you do or decide is already contained in God’s will. It’s not people interfering with a creationg, it’s contingent intelligence expressing itself. This line of reason offers as little ethical discussion as does a purely Darwinist stance …
Posted , Author Dana Stoll
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Thermodynamic Origin of Life
Jeremy England, Assistant Professor at MIT, proposed that when an external energy source is applied, local structures will form that facilitate global entropy increase. They do so, because they can dissipate the externally applied energy much easier than a lump of disorganized atoms. Plants, for example, can absorb sunlight and dissipate the energy more effectively. Making copies of yourself may be attributed to the same principle.
Posted , Author Dana Stoll