Each of us has an ethic, a way of navigating the world. My individual ethic is based on the decisions I have accrued starting in early childhood. They accumulate, subsumed, into our individual experience, and they determine consequences and future […]
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Experience seems fractal to me, neither linear nor random, but rather a collage of infinite and endlessly unfolding anamorphic recursions. The few that are proximal stimulate/trigger corresponding neurological patterns in my body and brain to make up my experience. So
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“Doctor, we only have seconds, which patient gets the kidney?” Interesting Q from the couch, critically important in real life. When it’s your own ass on the line, or a loved one’s, feelings quickly overwhelm thinking — fight, flee, freeze,
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Applied science offers reliable repeatability, like a cooking recipe refined iteratively over time, or getting your phone settings right. GOod ethical practices are similar: keep improving and adapting with as much mindfulness as you can muster Like human habits, for
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For most of us, the word “ethics” means “stop it!” Jim Carey the lifeguard shouting at a lone bather on SNL. We prefer ethics as a tool, not a cudgel. When we were kids, adults came out of the blue
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