The amygdala is a group of almond-shaped cells near the base of the brain, which helps the definition and regulation of human emotions. The amygdala activates the fight-or-flight response, which can help people in immediate physical danger to react quickly, without any initiative by them, for their safety and security. This was termed by Goleman in 2007 as the amygdala hijack in resemblance to the speedy action of pirates when attacking ships.
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Use of Soft and Neutrosophic Sets for a Mathematical Representation of the Ethical Rules
Copyright: © 2023
|Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4740-6.ch005
Abstract
Soft and neutrosophic sets are used in this chapter as tools for introducing a multi-valued logic for ethics. The introduction of a multi-valued logic in ethics is not a new idea, but there is not any integrated proposal about this reported in the literature until now. The target is not to add another theory about ethics, but instead to create a new basis enabling a modern approach to the subject. The chapter starts by examining the role of human logic and statistical thinking for the creation and evolution of ethics. A brief historical account of the development of ethics follows with emphasis to the moral dilemmas, the existence of which motivates the application of a multi-valued logic. The basic information about fuzzy sets, fuzzy logic, soft sets, and neutrosophic sets, needed for the understanding of the rest of the chapter, are also presented before using soft and neutrosophic sets for a mathematical representation of the ethical rules and in extension of the moral theories.