(October 2, 2018 at 12:48 am)robvalue Wrote: Converge! That's the word I'm looking for. Moral facts seem to assume that any (permitted?) definition of morality produces results that converge. But clearly, they don't. If we discuss things with people who share the same values as us, then we have a certain degree of convergence.
That's the key, to me. Do we share the same values? If so, great. Discussion can continue logically from there. There's no need to establish why we share those values, or that those values are somehow correct. If we don't share them, then we need to discuss why that is.
I'd liken the biological expression of evolved traits as something akin to complex interference patterns on the surface of a body of water. You can trace each ripple individually, and know that it's going to have some effect overall as energy propagates. But what you really can't do is see how all those complex interactions are going to manifest in a particular square millimeter of surface area.
We all share one thing-- we are a record in time of a collection of wave-states. We have this in common-- that we are motivated to express those billions of years of environmental interactions, and to see if what has worked so far will work again.
