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English
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Quantified Morality
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Parallels and Convergences: Mormon Thought and Engineering Vision
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Greg Kofford Books, Inc
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93-110
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"Morality is defined in quantitative terms as a discussion on human potential: Moral choices increase potential, and immoral choices limit it. A 'potentiality test' is presented that allows value comparisons of moral choices to be made based on the depth of nodes in a decision tree, where a proliferation of future possibilities increases the freedom of the individual. In a more rigorous approach, morality is discussed from an engineering perspective, where transgression increases entropy in the environment, but wise choices build potential and order into the environment that allows an individual to thrive. Based on an understanding of entropy, a possible mathematical model for morality is discussed. The ultimate product of a process that proliferates future possibilities is an individual who is in complete control of all circumstance in the environment or, in other words, an omnipotent being perfected by obedience to natural laws as described in Latter-day Saint theology." [Author]