Harris and Dennett on free will (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, March 12, 2014, 04:58 (3702 days ago) @ romansh


> Romansh: Beg to differ David
> Wherelse am I going going to look for a concept like a unicorn but in the physical?-But unicorn is a physical proposal, so of course you would look there. Like the teapot orbiting the sun. But a non-physical concept is still a concept. Where do you look for it?-> Romansh: What are acceptable on a beach in Iran and in St Tropez, are very definitely a product of society. -> Yes groups of various sizes set up the rules; some do it in the name of an intrinsic morality others for an orderly society.-You have described two different reasons for the rules of society, one secular society, one religious society? Aren't both the same?
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> Romansh: I would agree humans have evolved a capability to have a sense of fairness/morality. It is society that fills the capability. Having said that I will agree that evolution may have given humans (most) some small measure of what is right or wrong .That of course does not mean there is an intrinsic right and wrong.- I don't know it is a religious morality that supplies what is morally correct, so we probably agree here. But inherently we seem to have understood how to get along with one another. I don't know that evolution is capable of implanting that kind of right and wrong instinct into us. it may be a simple practical adjustment