(January 7, 2014 at 8:53 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: @ MFM
Thanks for clarifying. Value is comparative. Some things are more highly valued in comparison to other things. But only because they relate to something that has value in itself. Without something of inherent value the whole value structure collapses and an infinite regress stands between derived values and something capable of assigning value. In such a case the mind, as a physical thing, needs to be assigned value from another mind assigned a value from another mind with an assigned value ... etc. Physical systems, like chemical reactions, have no meaning or value in themselves. If the mind reduces to a physical system then you have no source from which meanings or values can come. Instead of this, the mind has inherent value because it has the essential attributes of life and love.
Again, you're getting it entirely backwards. Things aren't valued because they are valuable in themselves, but because WE value them. We have certain basal values that themselves don't seem to have other values on which they are based
