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Will your driverless car kill you to save others? + Physicalism, big heads & heaven

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Will Your Driverless Car Kill You So That Others May Live?
http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/201...ou-so.html

EXCERPT: A new op-ed by me, in the Los Angeles Times [...] I argue that programming the collision-avoidance software of an autonomous vehicle is an act of applied ethics, which we should bring into the open for the public to assess and for passengers to see and possibly modify within ethical limits...



Physicalism, swollen heads, heaven and recurrence
http://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2015/...eaven.html

EXCERPT: Assuming physicalism, for any fixed volume V, there are only finitely many internalistically-distinct mental states that a human brain of volume less than or equal to V can exhibit. [...] Therefore, given physicalism and a robust supervenience of the mental on the physical, in heaven either the volume of the human head will swell beyond all bounds, or else eventually we will only have reruns of the internalistically-same mental states. Neither option is acceptable. So, Christians should reject physicalism. [Additional comments follow opening blog entry...]
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