Cervelli e carrelli: il confine fra moralità lenta e moralità veloce nei processi decisionali

Abstract

Inquiry into the neural bases of moral judgment is one of the current frontiers in neuroscientific research and is intertwined with issues in Artificial Intelligence, the future of transport, and Philosophy of Mind. Humans are naturally endowed with an innate moral sense, which is governed by intuition and informed by rational rules. Moral judgment and behavior are the byproduct of the integration of emotional (morality fast) and rational (morality slow) processes, just as cognitive processes are the result of a combination of emotional instinct (thinking fast) and computational rationality (thinking slow). In the latter part of this work, I also consider the ethical issues raised by the introduction of Automated Driving Systems by reexamining the Trolley Problem: how should an autonomous vehicle be programmed to behave in the event of an unavoidable accident, in which it has to choose between two harmful consequences harms?

Keywords

• Decision-making
• Neuroscience
• Moral Judgments
• Comparative Perspective
• Trolley Problem