Harris and Dennett on free will (Introduction)

by romansh , Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 05:31 (3911 days ago) @ David Turell
edited by unknown, Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 06:00

How do you give a concept properties?
Take does the aether exist? If we give properties to aether eg light has to travel through - luminiferous aether. The Michelson Morley experiment put that concept out of its misery. But there may well be another "aether" out there with other properties that we have not tested for.
 
> I assume, in a way, this could be considered your answer to my new question above. but how scientific is setting up judgmental parameters?
I am not suggesting this at all. Are the properties of the concept corroborated by the evidence. If this is what you mean by judgemental - fair enough.
 
> Now you are arguing for an inherent human concept of right and wrong, but each society has its own rules.
No I am arguing against an intrinsic (inherent) concept of right and wrong.