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Evolution cannot account for morality
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality
(June 1, 2022 at 2:39 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(June 1, 2022 at 2:26 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: To this extent:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4571702/

To be fair, it describes self awareness as a general concept, not the specific definition that you personally dreamed up.

Second paragraph: It doesn’t, because your claim that the delusion of a soul is the result of not fully realized self awareness isn’t a fact, just another thing you dreamed up. That aside, at what level of awareness does the idea of a soul appear? Petunias? Oysters? Cats? Astronauts?

Boru

Yes, I dreamed it up, you have a problem with that?    I am not a slave to ideals of other people.

A conception of soul becomes a possibility at the level of self-modeling which extends farther forward in time then the next interaction with surrounding or a set of interactions that will span just a small fraction of the organism’s life span.    when the self-model capture large portion of the life cycle of the organism to include eventual inevitable death of the organism, then the concept of the soul would arise if the model fail to accurately predict the model itself, with it any self perception, ends when the organism inevitably ends.

is a cat aware it will grow old and die?   if so, does it reflexively think it will need to continue to have more kittens and catch more mouse, somewhere, after it dies?  if it does that it could be said it has a concept of soul.

Argle bargle worble whoosh.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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Evolution cannot account for morality - by chiknsld - May 27, 2022 at 11:47 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Jehanne - May 27, 2022 at 11:50 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by chiknsld - May 28, 2022 at 12:42 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Objectivist - December 30, 2022 at 11:26 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by brewer - May 28, 2022 at 8:59 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Ranjr - May 28, 2022 at 1:18 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Ranjr - May 28, 2022 at 1:29 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Astreja - May 28, 2022 at 1:59 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Belacqua - May 28, 2022 at 10:12 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Jehanne - May 28, 2022 at 7:22 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by brewer - May 28, 2022 at 9:03 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by brewer - May 28, 2022 at 1:08 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by brewer - May 28, 2022 at 1:18 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Ahriman - May 28, 2022 at 1:22 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by brewer - May 28, 2022 at 5:16 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Ahriman - May 28, 2022 at 6:28 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by brewer - May 28, 2022 at 6:50 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Ahriman - May 28, 2022 at 7:09 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by brewer - May 28, 2022 at 7:10 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Ahriman - May 28, 2022 at 7:16 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by brewer - May 28, 2022 at 7:23 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Ahriman - May 28, 2022 at 7:28 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Astreja - May 29, 2022 at 1:05 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Astreja - May 29, 2022 at 1:24 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Jehanne - May 29, 2022 at 1:33 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Brian37 - May 29, 2022 at 1:53 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by brewer - May 28, 2022 at 7:57 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Jehanne - May 28, 2022 at 10:04 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Jehanne - May 28, 2022 at 10:33 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by chiknsld - May 28, 2022 at 10:56 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Jehanne - May 28, 2022 at 2:54 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Ahriman - May 28, 2022 at 3:09 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Jehanne - May 28, 2022 at 3:22 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Jehanne - May 28, 2022 at 9:58 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Angrboda - May 28, 2022 at 10:57 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Ahriman - May 28, 2022 at 6:48 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by chiknsld - May 28, 2022 at 11:12 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by chiknsld - May 28, 2022 at 11:49 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by chiknsld - May 28, 2022 at 11:08 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Jehanne - May 29, 2022 at 7:56 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Jehanne - May 29, 2022 at 8:31 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Jehanne - May 29, 2022 at 11:26 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Jehanne - May 29, 2022 at 10:07 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by chiknsld - May 29, 2022 at 10:57 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Jehanne - May 29, 2022 at 11:13 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by chiknsld - May 29, 2022 at 11:30 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Jehanne - May 29, 2022 at 11:39 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by chiknsld - May 29, 2022 at 10:04 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Angrboda - May 29, 2022 at 11:12 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by chiknsld - May 29, 2022 at 11:22 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Ahriman - May 29, 2022 at 11:25 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Angrboda - May 29, 2022 at 11:28 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by chiknsld - May 29, 2022 at 10:52 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Ranjr - May 29, 2022 at 10:15 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by chiknsld - May 29, 2022 at 10:58 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Brian37 - May 29, 2022 at 12:22 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Brian37 - May 29, 2022 at 7:26 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Ahriman - May 29, 2022 at 9:03 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Jehanne - May 29, 2022 at 9:13 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Belacqua - May 29, 2022 at 10:20 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by chiknsld - May 30, 2022 at 10:47 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by brewer - May 31, 2022 at 8:11 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Ahriman - May 31, 2022 at 8:42 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Brian37 - May 31, 2022 at 9:02 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Ahriman - May 31, 2022 at 9:14 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Brian37 - May 31, 2022 at 9:30 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Ahriman - May 31, 2022 at 9:53 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by chiknsld - May 30, 2022 at 10:48 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Ahriman - May 31, 2022 at 9:07 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - June 1, 2022 at 2:46 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by brewer - June 1, 2022 at 7:01 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by brewer - June 2, 2022 at 8:11 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by chiknsld - June 3, 2022 at 10:43 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Aegon - June 3, 2022 at 11:12 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by chiknsld - June 3, 2022 at 11:23 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Aegon - June 4, 2022 at 10:20 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Aegon - June 7, 2022 at 10:37 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by brewer - June 7, 2022 at 8:52 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by chiknsld - June 6, 2022 at 11:11 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by chiknsld - June 6, 2022 at 11:24 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by chiknsld - June 6, 2022 at 11:25 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by brewer - June 7, 2022 at 6:23 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by brewer - June 7, 2022 at 7:52 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Veni - July 4, 2022 at 10:54 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by LinuxGal - December 21, 2022 at 9:51 am
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by GaugeBoson - December 25, 2022 at 2:45 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by Objectivist - December 30, 2022 at 11:14 pm
RE: Evolution cannot account for morality - by sdelsolray - January 1, 2023 at 10:06 pm

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