(May 1, 2015 at 2:46 pm)Faith No More Wrote: I think all the philosophical talk of meaning and value is just an evolved way of perceiving things which give us positive neurological feedback…The physiological feedback the organism received from eating the food creates the value of the act.
I wouldn’t say that simply responding to something is the same as valuing it. Someone considering the actions of an organism, like an amoeba, in terms of only efficient causes playing out in matter has no basis for saying that anything is good or bad for the amoeba. Assigning value requires observing that some actions taken by the organism bring it closer to or further away from its idealized nature.
