I'm never going to live that down am I? Look, he was very drunk at the time and the guy can throw fucking thunderbolts!. Have you ever been hit by a t...
Well yeah, that too, to a point. At a certain level, richer people can afford to make larger single investments of higher quality items, so they end u...
Why on earth would that be the case? If suggest to my colleague that we go to the cafe after work and he says "Yes", does that prove that my colleague...
Yes, definitely. As Feldman Barrett says... Basically, she's suggesting almost exactly what you posit, that CBT may have an effect on our priors in su...
I'm not an ethical naturalist. You didn't ask me what my own meta-ethical position was. I'm simply presenting challenges to yours in order to draw out...
I'm going to start with this because I get the feeling it might be central to the disagreement, but I need some clarity first on what you mean. By int...
I think it's probably best if I very briefly outline my preferred models as they seem to be crucial to answering your questions. Firstly, my preferred...
Good question, but since you've used 'we' not 'I', the answer would seem to be an empirical one, no? I agree, but again 'us' not 'me'. I'm not seeing ...
Exactly. @"Bartricks" the vast majority of your inane posts could be avoided if you could just grasp the very simple concept that what seems to you to...
Right, but we've just established that you didn't really mean 'elimination' in the sense of zero cases, so we're on the same page there. Your remainin...
OK, so could you describe how those elements apply to you 'philosophical claim' that we ought to see morality as a sort of matching of affect to world...
Yes. I would have thought that much was pretty unarguable because it's been done. It's also not been done with Influenza, HIV, Malaria, Dengue, Tuberc...
No, that's not Knutson's model, the experiment is just isolating one element in a wider system in order to inform that system, not replace it. If you ...
I don't know of anything in Damasio's or Panksepp's work which contradicts Knutson's work, nor that supports the assertion of yours I was commenting o...
No, it's not. It's because our limbic system responds to anticipation of potential reward more strongly than the receipt of it. You can't just make th...
How can moral language be exhortative if the meaning of moral terms is objective. Moral language must surely be propositional in that case? I've perha...
There's no mention of the disadvantages of lockdowns. One cannot make an argument in favour of an approach by only looking at the advantages of it. It...
I've no qualm with this as an aim, but you used the word 'should'. What do you think 'should' means here? It can't mean 'it would be morally right too...
I think this is where you're going wrong. pleasure and pain, enjoyment and suffering are not appetites in the sense you're trying to suggest. They're ...
I'm going to forgo any critique for a minute because we keep losing what you're claiming in all your analogies (which I don't find helpful) and I want...
No they're not. They're examples of success in regions with a low community infection source, which is the one type of environment we already know the...
Indeed. I think there's a deeper neurological basis for this. A lot of what happens in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex seems to be to act like a fi...
Cool, then I'll pretend that was what I was going for! Yes, I suppose it would. It's something that would be interesting to study (damn ethics committ...
That would be entirely fine if all you were doing was categorising, but that's not all you're doing. You go on to treat appetites, desires and intenti...
You've either misunderstood those papers or misunderstood my comment. It's not clear which. Neither of those papers are suggesting we will end up in a...
Yes. I've always been in favour of early decisive lockdowns. What I took issue with earlier, with you, was the assumption as to the causal relationshi...
This may be true, but the situation in the US and the UK is not like that in Australia and New Zealand (largely because of gross negligence in the ear...
This is literally just a repeat of what you said before without any attempt to address the issues I raised with it. As I'm having great trouble making...
No, I get that bit. Yes they are, each of those processes takes place in a brain. Sensation>perception>belief, and appetite> desire>intention are dire...
I have to say that generally I can't make much sense of what you've written, so I've little faith that the following will actually address it, but I'l...
Yeah, but I just explained how you're missing a step from the first half of that sentence to the idea of potentially all parties being wrong. With our...
No, that's not what happens at all. The part of the brain doing the 'envisioning' as you put it does not deal with either the correct application of t...
Simple. an objective fact is one about which it's possible for all parties to be wrong. A decision on which agreement matters is not such a thing - if...
This is the bit I don't get. Where's the connection between it mattering and me treating it as objective fact? If I was tied to five other people it w...
I agree. I'm not sure what I've written that might make you think otherwise. I'm not at all sure what you mean by 'rational outcome' here. I usually t...
A claim for which you have yet to provide a scrap of evidence. Seriously. @"StreetlightX", should this not go the way of the 'men in academia' thread?...
Of course it's rational. If everyone in your group thinks your behaviour is despicable then continuing to behave that way is going to get you ostracis...
It was the triviality I was questioning - sorry, should have made that more clear. To reformulate - why must it be trivial that we have disagreements ...
To put it another way - Assigning moral blame is a speech act (or sometimes a more physical act), and it lets the person know, as well as any other pe...
Why do you see these as the only two options - either 'like trivial preferences' or 'objectively and universally wrong'? In what way would it not 'mak...
I just explained that. It's not complicated. The sound (or image) stimulates a neuron sufficiently for it to stimulate one to which it is proximate. A...
You've given a really good list there of the limits of psychological investigation. I'm largely in agreement. You've prefaced the list rather unfortun...
Where in any of that does is say anything about whether this assumption is "before engaging with anyone"? If you actually read what I write rather tha...
Well then do so. Putting "I would argue..." before an assertion doesn't make it an argument. What would your argument be that logic and reason pre-exi...
I disagree strongly with this, but I think perhaps the source of our disagreement is about what constitutes a moral principle. I think that when I tal...
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