Do you (or some scientific consensus) not agree with Kohlberg's stages of moral development? That seems to confirm my own experiences. The first stage...
Can @"Kenosha Kid", @"jgill", @"fdrake" and the like weigh in on the accuracy of what I was saying up-thread about predictor systems (like human being...
I never meant to suggest you did. The “chocolate is popular” hypothetical response was just another example of giving an “is” answer to an “ought” que...
It's close enough. If you have two entangled electrons for example, one is guaranteed to be spin-up and the other to be spin-down, but it's not define...
I’m not arguing against any of that, merely distinguishing randomness from chaos as concepts. Determinism is the absence of randomness, not the absenc...
That is so, yes. In being “algorithmically calculable”, chaotic systems are still deterministic. Now instead imagine a system that is not chaotic, but...
How do you deduce this? This is precisely the is-ought problem. You have social capacities that are "good for" (contribute to) the survival of human g...
Yes, I technically disagree, but not in a way that undermines fdrake or StreetlightX's main points. There are systems where even if you could perfectl...
Nature doesn’t say it’s morally good to survive. Nature just says things that kinds of things that survive more successfully tend to be the kind of th...
Sounds good so far, if all of the arts are encompassed within this. I think these two things are inseparable and so belong as parts of the same pillar...
There’s no need to posit alien laser beams when our own sun is blasting us with tons of UV radiation all the time. (And back before photosynthesis the...
In that case you are not so much ignoring the is-ought divide, as just ignoring the ought side of it completely. You are only describing why certain b...
The important difference between what you’re picturing and what I’m actually saying is that on my account we are not merely to base moral reasoning on...
My philosopher's god would be philosophy itself, but it would be bad philosophy to call philosophy itself God, and I wouldn't abuse my god that way, s...
Just to clarify what it is that I was saying, in case that turns out to be useful to anyone in this thread: Say we had a simulation of a Galton box, s...
Without explicitly saying so sure. But if one were to assume otherwise, then there would be no point to doing such an investigation. To the tacit assu...
In doing so, you are only describing why we are inclined to do certain things, and calling those things good. You haven’t given any argument for why t...
A more substantial takeaway is: whatever feels good to someone (in their entirety, not just here and now) is what is good to them, and so what is good...
In the beginning there was the inflaton field, and it was without form, and void. Then it spontaneously transitioned into a different phase exciting a...
Nope. These are the two halves of the analogy: Something or another is the correct thing to believe (there is an objective reality) ~ Something or ano...
Not at all. My approach hinges entirely on the is-ought gap. The whole idea behind my approach is to look at how we handle “is” statements in science,...
That is just quantum mechanics. Which appears to be how reality actually works, so no problem there. My only point was that even if the universe was p...
Determination and predictability aren’t the same thing. The whole point of chaos theory is that even a perfectly deterministic system can still be wil...
As I discussed in the pomo thread, I have observed that there are a pair of common worldviews that suffer from this exact problem but in opposite ways...
Any time. :-) And classification is fine by me, you're right it fits my structure well. I actually explicitly draw an analogy between my take and Pasc...
The short version is that I realized that if nihilism were true we couldn’t know it to be true, any more than we could know its negation to be true. S...
It’s not that one is a product of zero, it’s that one is the empty product. Take any set of factors and multiply them together. Say for example {2, 2,...
Your counterargument is completely right. And furthermore, even if the universe (as we know it) did begin to exist, whatever caused it to exist may ha...
There are many things in the universe that, at the level of description we would use for them, aren’t law like. In fact probably most things. But then...
I suspect you’re thinking more of access consciousness than phenomenal consciousness. I take different approaches to the two. Access consciousness is ...
The news is essentially a wing of academia socially — they are public educators, in function. The question of how to ensure that students get an unbia...
Nothing in my short time of this forum has changed my views, but my views have changed drastically over the course of my life, although they were more...
Every theory is just postulating that the world is uniform in such-and-such way. To falsify it is to show that the world is not uniform in that way. B...
We can’t conclusive prove anything about the external world, only disprove. And uniformity or explainability is not something that can ever be disprov...
I wasn’t sure. In any case, I’m not painting the entire left-right divide as exactly like what I just described, but rather noticing that symmetrical ...
I argue exactly that it is not mere animal faith, but a pragmatically necessary assumption. Ab initio we are forced to tacitly assume one way or the o...
Because any influence would give somewhere to start an explanation. Wanting to admit an influential but unexplainable God is just wanting to declare t...
To be clear, I don't think those are the foundations of the actual left and right, just of those two stereotypes that are associated with the left and...
The only things that could possibly be unexplainable in principle are supernatural things that have no effects on the world, so that falls into that c...
We can never know if something is unexplainable, only that it is not explained yet. Yes. That’s why I think that incarnate things are not fit to be re...
The one under discussion in this thread: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/8626/the-principles-of-commensurablism Especially as captured in th...
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