Brett

And so far no one has been able to say what morality is, despite all the contorted formulations I’ve read.

Because, from my point of view, morality is inherent in man. It had a purpose that enabled him to evolve successfully. Otherwise there would be no com...

So you think you can work out what morality is with no context?

What morality is? Don’t be so arrogant. If it doesn’t have a purpose, what it’s good for, then why would it exist?

I think we eat junk food because it’s easy. We dont need junk food to give us a high energy return when we gave other food that we’ve eaten for years....

That is a big question, and probably entails more work than I can be bothered with to try and explain. It’s not that I can’t be bothered addressing yo...

This is moral relativism, right? Morals are not common property.

Your quote is what I think. But it’s not so much that they chose the immoral outcome as that they failed to chose the moral outcome. That might seem l...

I’m in agreement with you here. Just because people act in terrible ways does not mean the above isn’t true. The evolution of morality exists to hold ...

Do you mean they’re only doing evil because we think so?

That’s right, they are not evil because they weren’t acting immorally. They were just breaking the law.

Evil is knowingly acting immorally.

I find memes interesting but I can’t take the idea seriously. They’re an interesting subject in terms of evolutionary ideas and they help in focusing ...

Will we make a deal with technology? I rest my case.

Does that mean that to accept a meme the person must have a complete or partial knowledge of it to bind?

Initially a meme does seem to be just an idea, but then it’s also regarded as carrying besides ideas, behaviour, style, symbols and practices. But the...

I find this stuff very interesting. Are you imagining neurochemicals being used like a river carrying cargo?

I’ve indicated in a few posts my perception of human nature. Its a big, controversial subject with no agreement. I can only indicate which side of the...

I’d like to go back to my posts on human nature. Echarmion made a post where he seems to suggest, though I’m not sure, that the idea of being a ‘golde...

What do you mean? Edit: I may have misread it. Are you agreeing?

Yes, I do. Which is what you mean by the span of time?

A piece of music might be like a piece of performance art, in that the artist makes you experience each second. But each second is irrelevant on its o...

Of course. I think it’s interesting, ‘middle ground’ aside, where the two opposites actually are.

But this is my problem. A play does not attempt to fool you into believing it’s dealing in real time. It doesn’t pretend to because it can’t. But as a...

Out of pure interest and enquiry I have these thoughts to add. Is there difference between a painting and film in the sense you mean? The film might s...

The first part of this may be true. But not only white baby boomers. A lot of people benefited, most people’s lives improved, maybe by different degre...

White, Male) Baby Boomers benefited greatly from the New Deal and post-War economy and then fucked it up for younger generations, so they indeed suck[...

That’s very interesting. In a reply to a post I made to Echarmion I mentioned that one aspect of human nature is the making of tools; the first one be...

Okay. Thanks.

Well, here on tpf that’s a magic moment. No, I don’t think I know the Singularity movement.

I think that’s what I’m suggesting in my op.

Alarm bells again. Who defines insane? We agree, generally, on what insanity is, today. But what about later? Would insanity be any aspect of behaviou...

Well, I think we’re in agreement. I don’t think a computer can do this. However, if the answers are structured in a way that’s different from what we ...

Are you doubting here, or saying it might?

I’ve indicated something about what I base my perception of ‘human nature’ on. I added the idea of a ‘golden creature’, an idea you seem to refuse to ...

I get that. Maybe, I’m confused because the animosity is so very vague and simplistic. I did read once the idea that the 60s actually began in the 50s...

I seem to have lost the thread a bit here. What exactly are we saying was so bad, the worst, about the ‘boomers’?

There’s a bit of generalisation going on here and the posts seems to conflate elderly with maturity. But not all of the elderly are the same, even tho...

I’ve no idea where you live, but things have changed a bit. Where I live Grandparents are now the unpaid careers of their grandchildren. In some cases...

I think that technology is revealing something about who we are, different from what we imagine we are, or want to be. Even without the existence of G...

The ‘right’ values are the ones we chose. Feed them into the computer with all the statistics and you’ll get the ‘right’ outcome.

Just to add to my post on technological development; all viruses need a host.

However - are we in control of technology? Not all technology springs fully formed out of the air. Each invention is developed from some pre -existing...

I wish I could be white.

Because I’m not sure if everyone’s desires are good for everyone else. It may also be unrealistic to expect all your desires to be fulfilled and lead ...

Oh, oh. Alarms!

Yes, a more proficient mind.

Not all of our desires are healthy, nor should all of them be realised. Technology can realise the most powerful, influential and possibly destructive...

Not necessarily materialist items. But you’re right that technology does make the desire material. So I have to think about whether technology can cre...

For instance: The Soweto uprising, a series of demonstrations and protests led by black school children in South Africa that began on the morning of 1...