
Viorica Marian - The Power of Language
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The Role of Language in Decision Making
The languages that we speak and grow up in also influence the way that we think, the values that we have. Even if you're bilingual, for example, speaking in one language and speaking in another can relate to different moral codes or different ethics. There are many versions of this trolley problem. Some people say yes it is permissible because the maximum good you save more people. Other people say it is not. So maybe we would not ourselves push a person on the bridge to say five. But what if we don't have to push a person but we have to press a button? You know how far do we distance ourselves from our native language and rely increasingly on logical systems artificial systems like
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