RE: A Case for Inherent Morality
June 21, 2021 at 4:33 pm
(This post was last modified: June 21, 2021 at 4:37 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 21, 2021 at 3:41 pm)brewer Wrote:(June 21, 2021 at 2:55 pm)JohnJubinsky Wrote: I think that the above posts that brewer made about studies confirming that infants
prefer to be around others similar to themselves can also be explained by natural selection. That is, it was simply safer to be around others similar to oneself. As such, preferring to be around others similar to oneself became an inborn characteristic of the species.
Bold: While that may be, it's not morals.
I don't think you read or comprehended the second study. It addressed infant study flaws and manipulation.
Why not? I think that's the unspoken variable. Why isn't whatever that is, morals?
(June 21, 2021 at 3:51 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: If I had more time I could look it up; I believe the researchers are famous evolutionary psychologists Tooby and Cosmides. In other words, our brains do not process all information equally; there is a bias towards normative thinking.
https://www.cep.ucsb.edu/primer.html
Their topline summary
Quote:Principle 1. The brain is a physical system. It functions as a computer. Its circuits are designed to generate behavior that is appropriate to your environmental circumstances.
Principle 2. Our neural circuits were designed by natural selection to solve problems that our ancestors faced during our species' evolutionary history.
Principle 3. Consciousness is just the tip of the iceberg; most of what goes on in your mind is hidden from you. As a result, your conscious experience can mislead you into thinking that our circuitry is simpler that it really is. Most problems that you experience as easy to solve are very difficult to solve -- they require very complicated neural circuitry
Principle 4. Different neural circuits are specialized for solving different adaptive problems.
Principle 5. Our modern skulls house a stone age mind.
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