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Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does
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RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does
There's a lot of terms in there that would spawn a lot of formal philosophy, so I'll leave that to the experts. As a naive philosopher, my tentative conclusion is that morality is derived from chemical intelligence. The dichotomies offered make sense in the context of protozoa initiating action - left, right; forward, back; stillness or motion. Furthermore, man is a trinity of simulation - simulation of mind in brain, simulation of mind of another in mind, simulation of future in mind - which defines self based upon experience and environment.

And last I checked, there was no moral absolute; what there is, perhaps, is an absolute paradigm; mine being that I love.

Amo ergo sum. Consciously and subconsciously applied to changes in the environment.
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RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by houseofcantor - December 1, 2013 at 5:54 pm
RE: Fine tuning - by pocaracas - December 4, 2013 at 5:59 pm

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