Jan 19
Ethical Orientation as Homeostasis: Meaning, Agency, and the Regulation of Action
Ethical orientation is not an abstract overlay imposed on an otherwise neutral organism. It is a regulatory function, as concrete and biologically consequential as thermoregulation or glycaemic control. When examined without moral sentimentality, ethics emerges as a stabilising constraint on action selection in finite nervous systems embedded in irreversible time. Meaning, agency, and ethical…
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