(July 5, 2013 at 5:06 pm)simplexity Wrote: Yep it's murder I say! Murder!
I think the beginning of this video sums up where morality comes from. Within ourselves. As said, a sickening number of times on this thread.
No, it just commits the fallacy of confusing the cause of a belief/sensation with what the belief is about, or what the sensation is of.
My brain, I understand, causes all of my beliefs. Doesn't follow all of my beliefs are about my brain. Doesn't mean, for example, that showing I have a brain will vindicate all of my beliefs.
All of my sensations presumably require a brain in order to exist (I don't think they do - but let's not get sidetracked into philosophy of mind). It doesn't follow that all my sensations are of my brain. I see a tree, not a brain!