praxis

So you're suggesting that critters have morals, @"S"? It's currently believed that the amygdala doesn't play the as big a role in human emotion as the...

If I recall correctly, he claimed to value love over truth (and reason?), so not a good fit for a philosophy forum.

Dog spelled backward is God, FYI.

Religion is hierarchical and only the top dog can be the master dog.

I’m sure that many feel or believe that the rules have something. Creativity can’t exist without a foundation or something to work with. As I tried to...

And whatever that is works for you??

Probably. Hopefully. Things like nature and civilization are both typically valued, for different reason. They are not “non-values” or “value-neutral....

You can’t ignore me, bi-otch.

In the sense that it was meant, yes, because I believe that modern society (myself included) is rather inauthentic in general.

Such as? Neutrons and electrons have existed for billions of years longer than tables and chairs, but not all neutrons and electrons result in tables ...

You mentioned being "creative and authentic" so I gave an example that addresses both. The person who started the topic referred to "genuine Being" in...

If someone adhered to specific rules, like painting by numbers or something, they would certainly not be creative. Can someone authentically enjoy pai...

Is that supposed to be impressive? Religion, or any particular religion, is not love. You value truth, as we all do, but you value the system of meani...

Really? I assumed it was because you were trying to using science to invalidate evolutionary psychology, and it would have been awkward, to say the le...

No, you began with claims about a specific science (neurobiology) and not science in general. People may not want to ignore you so much if you were mo...

It seems odd because you have it backwards, authenticity is the degree to which an individual's actions are congruent with their beliefs and desires, ...

And the truth is that God created us, etc.? What does science have to say about that?

I wouldn’t say “nonscientific disciplines,” whatever that is. I used the term “soft sciences.” The source of morals must include culture. Neurobiology...

You’ve made yourself the quintessential exemplar.

I don’t think it’s about flying cars either. What do they call it? Oh yes, an analogy. They’re sometimes used to help bridge gaps in understanding bet...

Am I a dualists? No. I wasn’t sure how serious a question that was and also didn’t want to lose track of the subject in a tangent, or at least an unin...

Recognizing the responsibly, sure. What do you mean an aesthetic assessment? Of course we can work to condition ourselves for various objectives but s...

If the goal is a demographic of one then political individualism or libertarianism would be a poor choice to start with because the value set it holds...

I believe the identity of political individualism is libertarianism.

Not a reading recommendation but in Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Steven Pinker makes a good argument for p...

We can consciously endeavor to condition ourselves so that our responses or subconscious predictions are of a desirable quality. At least in that way ...

Hive-mind politics.

Obfuscation.

I’m wondering if you’re both amazed and fascinated by how much we've already discovered in the ‘soft’ sciences.

That’s a rather long way to get around the question. I think you know I was simply trying to identify an analog for morality in computers. Are you sug...

Because an inadequate identification would result in an inadequate explanation.

Both brains and computers process information. The processes that amount to computer networks of cooperative interaction occurs in computers, and only...

It cannot do this without some variety of order, similar to the way a computer is nonfunctional without software. If the source of how computers inter...

Emotions are for regulating energy expenditure appropriately to circumstances and are not all all redundant. They would be redundant if we didn’t have...

@"Wallows" I noticed the other day that Terrapin Station, who’s been active on the forum for three years and has 8.5k posts, has never started a discu...

Poor championless S.

I just read the alleged bump post and I have to agree with Wallows that it's a legitimate draft that could turn into an interesting and worthwhile top...

I'm not a scientist and strongly doubt such scientific studies exist. Also, I didn't claim that moral stances can't occur in brains. My turn. Is moral...

What you quote is my interpretation of S’s illustrious analogy and not something I would say, in case that isn’t clear. Anyway, I think it’s time to i...

It was just a side note, expressing a feeling and not an ontology. I would have preferred it if you had focused on the rest of the post.

I suggest hiring a hypnotist who could possibly make us believe that your point is worthwhile.

I meant to say that one and two are possibilities. Not to say that S’s thoughts are not magnificent.

There are two possibilities: 1) You don't understand what you're trying to convey well enough to communicate it succinctly. 2) You're unwilling to com...

Money talks because it's the one thing that practically everyone on the globe believes in. Some believe in angels and gods, and others don't. Some bel...

I was wondering why "The draft thread" was closed. Was it because of pirates?

I'll try to save Terrapin the bother. The source of morals cannot be found in human biology, therefore the belief that it can is rubbish. As I said, m...

And we know you don’t clarify because it would reveal the meagerness of your point.

I meant to write *concepts, btw. What I mean is that what you’re suggesting about learning concepts may not apply to how we order concepts. The order ...

There’s also (in addition to my previous comments about it) the relative value and narrative that order concept, such as liberty (high value for you) ...

If ‘cars’ are nature and ‘flying’ is nurture, I’ve been saying repeatedly from the beginning that both are necessary for a flying car. Car + flying = ...