Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does

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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

December 1, 2013 at 5:54 pm

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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Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by Mudhammam - December 1, 2013 at 5:44 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by houseofcantor - December 1, 2013 at 5:54 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by Mudhammam - December 1, 2013 at 5:58 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by houseofcantor - December 1, 2013 at 7:19 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me - by Angrboda - December 1, 2013 at 6:18 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by bennyboy - December 1, 2013 at 7:00 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by pocaracas - December 1, 2013 at 7:10 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by Mudhammam - December 1, 2013 at 11:17 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by Angrboda - December 1, 2013 at 11:35 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by pocaracas - December 2, 2013 at 6:14 am

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by Mudhammam - December 2, 2013 at 3:41 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by pocaracas - December 2, 2013 at 4:13 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by Whateverist - December 2, 2013 at 2:24 am

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by Whateverist - December 2, 2013 at 8:50 am

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by bennyboy - December 2, 2013 at 10:19 am

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by Mudhammam - December 2, 2013 at 3:26 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by Whateverist - December 2, 2013 at 11:29 am

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by MindForgedManacle - December 2, 2013 at 3:34 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by Angrboda - December 2, 2013 at 9:38 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by genkaus - December 4, 2013 at 6:23 am

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by Mudhammam - December 4, 2013 at 5:44 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by genkaus - December 5, 2013 at 3:18 am

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by Mudhammam - December 5, 2013 at 2:49 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by genkaus - December 5, 2013 at 4:08 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me - by Angrboda - December 5, 2013 at 6:08 pm

RE: Fine tuning - by pocaracas - December 4, 2013 at 5:59 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by Mudhammam - December 4, 2013 at 6:20 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by Mudhammam - December 8, 2013 at 12:30 am

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by Angrboda - December 4, 2013 at 6:22 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by pocaracas - December 4, 2013 at 6:28 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me - by Angrboda - December 5, 2013 at 3:25 am

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by MindForgedManacle - December 5, 2013 at 11:14 am

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by MindForgedManacle - December 5, 2013 at 3:41 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by Mudhammam - December 5, 2013 at 3:54 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility - by xpastor - December 15, 2013 at 6:18 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by Angrboda - December 16, 2013 at 3:59 am

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. - by xpastor - December 16, 2013 at 8:05 am

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by Neo-Scholastic - December 16, 2013 at 10:39 am

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by MindForgedManacle - December 16, 2013 at 12:23 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by Neo-Scholastic - December 16, 2013 at 1:49 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by MindForgedManacle - December 16, 2013 at 7:16 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by Neo-Scholastic - December 16, 2013 at 8:52 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by Whateverist - December 16, 2013 at 9:35 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by Neo-Scholastic - December 16, 2013 at 9:40 pm

RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by MindForgedManacle - December 17, 2013 at 12:47 am

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