Moral Relativism

 


The moral relativist under the bed appears to be taking a meta-ethical position. It may not be possible to establish an objective reason why it is wrong to scare children, but is the child right to be scared? Are moral relativists capable of anything simply because they do not lay claim to absolute moral values? A similar question is often asked about atheists.

Mind reading

The clip above shows pre-recorded scenes and reconstuctions of those scenes based on brain activity. You can see that the clearest images are to do with faces - the brain devotes enormous resources to this and to the interpretation of text. It would be interesting to see if a tiger or other predator would cause different images than that of an elephant

Could a robot be conscious?

There is a good summary of some of the key questions in Philosophy of mind in this BBC article, plus link a to a program called 'The Philosopher's Arms' in which:

a man discovers that his adopted daughter is a robot. Should he treat her any differently from before? She's indistinguishable from a human so should she have the same status as a human?