(May 2, 2014 at 10:25 pm)ns1452 Wrote: The problem with your article and your comment is what is beauty, courage, right, wrong, good, and evil apart from God? If your paradigm is that all experience is simply chemical reactions than in your system these concepts don't exist. People are simply responding to stimuli. That is not a concept of beauty. These concepts only having meaning in world that has more meaning than simply chemical neurological reactions. Therefore, your article has little merit because it asserts philosophical ideas that has no basis within your paradigms. Arguably, these ideas have been borrowed from a theist world view. This is why I have not dealt with your article.
Begging the question a bit, aren't we?
Beauty, courage, etc., are all human attempts to quantify and qualify stimuli, and they don't have to have some intrinsically endowed metaphyscial meaning for them to be anything other than completely meaningless. They are concepts based upon human attempts to organize and understand its environment, not magical properties from some unseen realm.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
