praxis

I understand if it doesn’t interest you. The results are typically surprising.

Maybe you'll feel differently after the meds kick-in.

So why is Hillary (or Biden with a vagina) worse than Trump?

I suggest you try some of the harvard.edu implicit association tests to maybe get a feel for your own ignorance: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit...

Ignorance of conditions (instinct) or conditioning (early development), I would guess.

Maybe that makes sense in context?

I’m not sure what you mean by this.

Right. The point is that individuals may have roughly the same intuitions but they can be developed differently depending on cultural influences. If t...

Never mind.

It’s not clear to me how you distinguish between moral judgments that, on examination, ‘thought/belief’ can be clearly articulated and judgments where...

Moral dumbfounding is believed by some to be evidence for moral intuition. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical_intuitionism

Are you suggesting that you don’t believe in moral intuition?

I think you might be taking the belief in fiction thing a bit too far, in seeing things that aren’t there.

So, what part of the video does he say something like that? How many minutes/seconds into it?

I finished the book and indeed the author makes no claim that the world needs a global ideology, religion, or whatever. He makes the basic claim that ...

It’s ideological in the sense that people believe that wealth will make them happy. The evidence shows that it makes little difference, unless you’re ...

Truly priceless.

Highly relevant in regards to considering the source of morals. IMO.

We need more journalists like Andrew Neil in the US.

He is technically correct, “human life exists at conception.” I mean it’s not a giraffe embryo, and the mother is human. You could also say that human...

Happy travels and congrats to the kid. :party:

Finally someone calls bullshit on one of these political pundits, who's brand is built on divisiveness, claiming that that the US is too divided and n...

In the context of moral dumbfounding? Plenty, in my opinion. Dumbfounding is indicative of an implicit evaluation or conditioned response that is bene...

That’s another term for it, yes.

So intuitive, non-linguistic, subconscious, whichever you want to call it then?

It might be helpful, to me at least, to distinguish between prelinguistic (instinct) and, I’ll call it non-linguistic (subconscious), thought/belief o...

I was reading a little about Mao the other day. Talk about a faulty circuit.

I think that I may have figured it out, and in the process identified a basic flaw in the project of attempting to develop a universal criterion for w...

Again, I’ve just been trying to figure out your distinction. I’m satisfied now and I agree with you. I guess that I have a habit of being too loose in...

This is not clear. You’re saying there’s a nonphysical representation of ‘apple’ that is subdivided to match the physical world as need be? If so, it ...

I’m just trying to understand your distinction between behavior towards others and behavior not towards others, as it relates to morals. If you don’t ...

Sense data is processed as patterns. The patterns are processed to form invariant representations. An invariant representation or concept of an apple,...

So what if instead of a grape the Fox was unsuccessful in seducing a potential mate who rebuffed him?

Not exactly, you’re also saying that it’s not about considering behaviour towards others. You must see that that’s where we disagree, or I don’t follo...

Good or bad consequence?

The emperor has no dough. In some years it's reported that Trump lost more money than any other tax payer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auOsePOm-SI

Good day to you, Sir. :razz:

I'd like to resolve this, but it's fine if you'd like to move on. I've identified two morals in the fable, which are insufficiencies in self-reflectio...

I don’t think this line of thought is important to the project of determining the source of morals. I’ve found it interesting though.

The depth of consideration and values of those interpreting it. Never.

If you had a hundred billion Chinese people, each of them could simulate a neuron, and provided they used the same algorithms as a human brain, it cou...

For example B, instead of adding water, what if you separated the sugars, coloring, etc. in the cup of orange juice. Then not only would it no longer ...

Considering that we’re rapidly making the world uninhabitable for ourselves, with mass extinctions of species, climate change, pollution, etc. we migh...

No worries. The thornbird comes to mind for some reason. It's a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other cre...

Your alien does have you in a dark place, mistaking play, and genuine admiration, for hate.

Cool, frank, you finally said something that makes sense.

Practice mediation daily.

We have no choice but to accept the fact. In theory, cognitive dissonance can be positive or negative so choosing a fiction may not be the mistake. I ...

Giving up may not have been a mistake. Further effort could have been better spent simply looking for low lying fruit elsewhere. The mistake was choos...

Is it pretend? In any case, it only matters in relation to other beings of its group. If It doesn’t belong to a group then there is no moral. If a man...