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AMA | November 2021
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Impossibility of Counting Lives and Experiences
"It seems parochial and selfish to say that i should count people near to me and my moral calculus more than people far away from me," he says. "If we count potentially an infinite number of people, i mean, and we count all of them equally, then literally the only moral thing to do right now is to try to prevent the heat death of the universe." He adds: 'I don't think it should follow from any reason moral starting point'
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