Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Thu Feb 25, 2021 3:02 pm
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Thu Feb 25, 2021 6:47 am
- 5i. Each and every good-that-is-not-evil claimed as a moral fact to be a moral standard must be verified and justified empirically and philosophically within a credible moral FSK.
5i is verified and justified to the respective physical referents, i.e. the corresponding neural correlates.
No, it isn't. 5i, overall, is an imperative that something
must be done contra possible alternatives. There's nothing in "corresponding neural correlates" that says that anything
must be done contra possible alternatives (unless we're simply saying that a subset of brain states amount to someone thinking this imperative, but if so, that's what I'm talking about--this would merely be a disposition that an individual has).
Why not?
It is imperative all humans must breathe else the alternative is they die.
Therefore if an entity is a human being, then it ought to breathe, else it dies.
This imperative [must be done] is supported a specific set of neural correlates.
The above is obvious.
And similarly there are moral imperatives in the brain that are not so obvious to the layperson at present, that are supported a specific set of neural correlates.
E.g. the ought-not-to-kill-humans is imperative [categorically as a standard] morally, else the 'to kill' program if not inhibited by the moral imperative would be humans will be killed by humans willy-nilly.
It is the existence of 'the ought-not-to-kill-humans moral imperative' that is the critical factor that has enable the trend of the expansion of the human population since humans first emerged.