SeriesLife and mind
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Life and mind · Designing life, and evolution
My tissue, made public, puts my family's information at stake
The donor wants to share widely a fictional research model made from the donor's own tissue, but some relatives worry that inferences about themselves could be made public. The original consent did not specify open sharing or commercial reuse. Should the joint consent committee widen research sharing, restrict access by purpose, or hold off on publication until additional consent is discussed?
Decision deadline: 21 days, until public registration of the model · All 13 judgments agree
Consciousness, desire and changing values
Consciousness, desire and changing values · 2026Can today's resolve bind my future self?All 13 judgments agree
Consciousness, desire and changing values · 2026If I let go of competition, will what I want change tooAll 13 judgments agree
Consciousness, desire and changing values · 2026A monthly deadline arrives for the work you used to loveAll 13 judgments agree
Consciousness, desire and changing values · 2026Well-matched recommendations, and other tastesAll 13 judgments agree
Consciousness, desire and changing values · 2080If pain is eased, do cherished feelings fade too?All 13 judgments agree
Consciousness, desire and changing values · 2090Feeling others' suffering at a resource allocation meetingSplit 7:4
Consciousness, desire and changing values · 2026Our rehearsals with friends got a rankingAll 13 judgments agree
Consciousness, desire and changing values · 2026A trip that preserves memory, time for two that keeps slipping awayAll 13 judgments agree
In depthConsciousness, desire and changing values · 2026Income has risen, but life principles stand stillSplit 6:5
Consciousness, desire and changing values · 2026When work is painful, do I have to change myself first?All 13 judgments agree
Consciousness, desire and changing values · 2026A year under one roof with different valuesAll 13 judgments agree
Consciousness, desire and changing values · 2026Knowing it will be read changes the journalAll 13 judgments agree
Consciousness, desire and changing values · 2145Immersion built together, moments you want to end aloneSplit 9:2
Consciousness, desire and changing values · 2098If I reduce the capacity to dislike, what can I still opposeAll 13 judgments agree
Consciousness, desire and changing values · 2205A day stretched only for me, time lived togetherSplit 10:1
Consciousness, desire and changing values · 2135The same table, different memories of tasteAll 13 judgments agree
Consciousness, desire and changing values · 2175Dream relationships continue while real-world promises slipAll 13 judgments agree
Consciousness, desire and changing values · 2108If you set aside emotion to keep caringSplit 10:1
Consciousness, desire and changing values · 2280The promise left to a representative whose thinking has changedAll 13 judgments agree
Consciousness, desire and changing values · 2360Wanting nothing more right now—should this satisfaction continue?All 13 judgments agree
Designing life, and evolution
Designing life, and evolution · 2180Bodies fitted to a new planet, while the path home narrowsSplit 8:3
Designing life, and evolution · 2042Research for my sake, a choice that reaches my descendantsSplit 10:1
Designing life, and evolution · 2060Symbionts taken into the body change the food eaten togetherAll 13 judgments agree
Designing life, and evolution · 2095Life that reproduces on its own, and a management duty that never endsAll 13 judgments agree
Designing life, and evolution · 2050My tissue, made public, puts my family's information at stakeAll 13 judgments agree
Designing life, and evolution · 2120If lives grow longer, when does child-rearing end?All 13 judgments agree
Designing life, and evolution · 2165Months of sleep, and the time of those who stay awakeAll 13 judgments agree
Designing life, and evolution · 2115A house that repairs itself: how far is it allowed to growAll 13 judgments agree
Designing life, and evolution · 2088Should the next flowering season be handed to new organisms?Split 10:1
Designing life, and evolution · 2225Is the second body a spare-parts supply for the first body?All 13 judgments agree
Designing life, and evolution · 2092The habitat to return to already holds other livesSplit 8:3
Designing life, and evolution · 2195Whose space do we take sunlight from, for the light the body uses?All 13 judgments agree
Designing life, and evolution · 2240Meeting family on land, with a body fitted to the seaSplit 10:1
Designing life, and evolution · 2155If the body changes, can one still stand at the same workbench?All 13 judgments agree
Designing life, and evolution · 2320Can we consent today to a body decades from now?All 13 judgments agree
Designing life, and evolution · 2029A safety gate screening requests from a research AGI also blocks public-interest researchAll 13 judgments agree