RE: What is 'objective' value?
January 21, 2016 at 6:26 am
(This post was last modified: January 21, 2016 at 6:29 am by bennyboy.)
I don't think starting with human intentionality will make things very clear, since it involves evolutionary events we can't know about interacting with an environment so complex it can't be understood.
I'd like to talk about non-sentient events which branch: specifically lightning. How is it that lightning makes its quite complex branching as it reaches up toward the sky? It seems that we are looking at the path of least resistance, here, and that in this context the "best" path of the lightning is that which offers least resistance to the natural processes involved.
We often think of desires and intention as active forces, connected to human will. But what if rather than saying we chase our ambitions, we think of obedience to ambition as the path of least psychological resistance? In this case, no matter WHAT goal someone seems arbitrarily to establish, it can be assumed that the person is following the path of least resistance both in choosing that goal and in its execution-- much as while each branch of lightning takes a unique path, it is following only a single principle.
If this view is correct, then there is an objective value for ALL goals and the actions leading to them, no matter how they vary among individuals, and not only that, the goal will be adhered to 100% of the time simply by the nature of things.
I'd like to talk about non-sentient events which branch: specifically lightning. How is it that lightning makes its quite complex branching as it reaches up toward the sky? It seems that we are looking at the path of least resistance, here, and that in this context the "best" path of the lightning is that which offers least resistance to the natural processes involved.
We often think of desires and intention as active forces, connected to human will. But what if rather than saying we chase our ambitions, we think of obedience to ambition as the path of least psychological resistance? In this case, no matter WHAT goal someone seems arbitrarily to establish, it can be assumed that the person is following the path of least resistance both in choosing that goal and in its execution-- much as while each branch of lightning takes a unique path, it is following only a single principle.
If this view is correct, then there is an objective value for ALL goals and the actions leading to them, no matter how they vary among individuals, and not only that, the goal will be adhered to 100% of the time simply by the nature of things.
