RE: Evolution cannot account for morality
June 1, 2022 at 1:33 pm
(This post was last modified: June 1, 2022 at 1:45 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(June 1, 2022 at 1:18 pm)Angrboda Wrote: So, our self awareness is insufficiently fully self aware? I think I've just been Chopra'd.
Yes, it that hard to understand? Self-awareness is based on a mental model of self that runs on the circuitry of the being the model captures. The mental model has high enough fidelity to capture a wide range of the complex behavior and predict their effects, but does not have high enough fidelity to capture the fact that this self model ends when the physical being on whose circuitry it runs ends, hence the tendency to predict continued life like interactions between self and external elements after the physical being itself is predicted to have come to an end.
So our self-awareness algorithm lack the fidelity to instinctive know there will be no self awareness after death, rather we instinctive tend to assume self awareness continues after death.