“So how would you recognize a natural ethical process if you saw one?”
Suppose that you observe process A- maybe you look at it, or poke around a bit inside it, but you don’t make a precise model. If you extrapolate A forward in time, you will get a probability distribution over possible states (including the states of all the other stuff that A touches). If A consistently winds up in very small regions of this distribution, compared to what your model is, and there’s no way to fix your model without making it extremely complex, you can say A is an “ethical process”. Two galaxies, or two rocks, or two rivers, can easily collide; but if you look at humans, or zebras, or even fish, you will notice that they run into each other much less often than you would expect if you made a simple Newtonian model.
“So how would you recognize a natural ethical process if you saw one?”
Suppose that you observe process A- maybe you look at it, or poke around a bit inside it, but you don’t make a precise model. If you extrapolate A forward in time, you will get a probability distribution over possible states (including the states of all the other stuff that A touches). If A consistently winds up in very small regions of this distribution, compared to what your model is, and there’s no way to fix your model without making it extremely complex, you can say A is an “ethical process”. Two galaxies, or two rocks, or two rivers, can easily collide; but if you look at humans, or zebras, or even fish, you will notice that they run into each other much less often than you would expect if you made a simple Newtonian model.