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[@ponzi6860]

Your podcast is what urged me to pursue BA Philosophy for college. Thank you for changing my life ❤️

[@HenrikMyrhaug]

This is by far the best explanation on the topic I have found!

[@BrassicaRappa]

This overlaps with thoughts I've been having about language and brains and how they work together. Like it feels like the language part of my brain is more in the foreground and more "visible" to the part of my mind you might call my "conscious" mind. And how that can affect how I tend to think about things. Like if I focus to heavily on just the language processing part, my thinking can look more like rationalization than actual reason, as opposed to when I bring my emotional and intuitive sections into the equation, which give me deeper access to...well I'm not sure what exactly - or rather, it's harder to translate into language, but it's like a deeper part of my brain that holds concepts and senses of things from experience - and is also more imaginative and able to do things like empathize and hypothesize.

[@zokymasa]

Listening to you on a summer evenig in a garden right outside of Paris. Could I ask for more? 😁

[@GoddessStone]

Thank you, this is so appreciated and lovely to hear on a warm summer night on Lake Constance. Perhaps the trolley thought experiment is hard to pin down, because it can be altered in a hundred ways, but it can never be pure. The experiment could never be real, because of the human element. Humans can take in massive amounts of information in a split second, and all of those would have to be included in the question. They say either it's an old man or children, fat man and 3 skinny men, etc. The question has to include many situations, plus the mood we are in, our pain level, if our mother forgot our birthday, if we ate or slept the night before, here there are billions of scenarios that can't be included. There was a movie where Tom Hank's character and his co-pilot were on trial for crash landing. Every expert ran simulations and said all of them could have landed. Other pilots over and over, land the plane. The difference was, all of them knew what was going to happen beforehand to the second and immediately knew the goal. However, in the real situation, they had to first establish what the problem really was, and agree on the best course, talk with ground control...the circumstances would have to be exact, down to your birth sign and relative humidity, to even be able to answer the question. This is why I love philosophy, because it helps us see, the possibilities are truly endless. Good night everyone, I am glad you are all here.

[@DirtyBottomsPottery]

The measure of moral reasoning develops differently for individuals who have a dominant role in society, and those who play a submissive role. Studies have shown that people who live with a sense of power, the part of their brain that functions for empathy, the hippocampus, shrinks. Those who live in the bottom part of society who do not live with a sense of power, the part of their brain that functions for empathy increases. In other words the wealthy and the rest of the population have fundamentally different conceptions of ethics.

[@nefwaenre]

i came here completely biased against subject, but by this here at

[@yeonieee1]

Not just because of how you explain but also your voice is really suit on teaching and making this video. I really appreciate it!!

[@donomar4815]

This video is REALLY outstanding and insightful. It definitely brings an added value to the viewers. You absolutely do an amazing work and we thank you for that.

[@agnostic3256]

This most definitely is challenging me to think out of the box...

[@dlloydy5356]

This is a fantastic episode. Really looking forward to this series. Thank you Stephen

[@ParkerPPK]

Was a blast playing with you, can't wait to listen!

[@christinemartin63]

Holy cow ... never heard of this experiment. This topic is worth pondering deeply 🤔

[@lunalevi7482]

this is one of my favourite podcasts and one of my favourite episodes 🙌

[@standowner6979]

Oh my goodness! This episode was amazing.

[@victoriabrunner3281]

Amazing ! Thank you !

[@baronbullshyster2996]

Very good Mr West loved it.

[@Arygo87]

About the trolley problem...

[@anabasic640]

Great show 💗

[@heerakathakor6016]

Great essay!