Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 5:10 am
I agree if there are contradictions they should be pointed out, e.g. if someone is claiming a square circle existing or in the likes of p and non-p existing in the same time and same sense.
If you admit you are ignorant in that specific areas, then you should not be insisting I am wrong or not correct but rather you don't know or not sure.
Hahaha!
No. My ignorance on certain issues does not save the contradictions of your theory.
- Humans are programmable.
- Humans are programmed to kill congeners.
- Humanity has biological inhibitors that prevent the execution of this program and that is reinforced with the use of the will.
- Humanity, in its beginnings, was made up of a majority of individuals with strong inhibitors.
- The program was activated to a greater extent in the past.
- During the last 100,000 years these inhibitors were reinforced and this generated a moral improvement of the population.
- The increase in human population is due to the fact that humanity is reinforcing these inhibitors.
- The existence of a type of neurotransmitter proves the existence of inhibitors.
- Psychopathy is the result of weak inhibitors.
- A programmed individual does not necessarily have to obey his program.
- The reinforcement of inhibitors is the result of biological evolution.
- The reinforcement of inhibitors is the result of the individual will of each individual.
- One can determine that moral behavior is the result of the interaction between the different types of wills and the different types of reinforcement of inhibitors.
- Etc.
There is more but I am naturally lazy
Most contradict what is known to science and a few of them are mutually exclusive.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 5:10 am
Here is the point where you are ignorant and failed to infer from common knowledge.
Psychopaths in relation to morality [this OP] relate to their tendency to cause harm and to killing humans. See the bolded terms involved in the abstract.
Note the term "modulate" above is synonymous to 'inhibit' with control.
The rest of the paper [..I have downloaded it] also imply the existence of biological inhibitors and I quoted one point earlier.
- Some psychopaths show violent behaviors and when they receive a certain chemical, in some of them, those behaviors decrease.
This does not prove the existence of biological inhibitors that block programs in humans.
And above all it is irrelevant because you clarified that the majority of humans were not psychopaths in the origins of the species and because there is no reason to believe that today there is a lower proportion of psychopaths than in ancient times. This contradicts the idea that the human will and evolution are correcting psychopathy in the population.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 5:10 am
Again you are ignorant here.
Psychopathy is more complex than what you stated above; it involves a complicated set of neural wirings and pathways.
Even when you use empathic relationship, the critical activity of empathy is to inhibit the psychopathic impulses that trigger the person to do harm or kill humans, i.e. it involves inhibitors.
A psychopath is not someone who most often resorts to aggressive solutions.
A psychopath is someone who does not have the same emotional reactions as you, for neurological reasons.
He will not understand why someone is sad or why a behavior will have negative social consequences.
He consciously learns the subtleties of human reactions and how to mask himself.
It is true that a psychopath reacts angrily if frustrated. But not all of them react violently.
He is very dependent on his victims and is normally controlled as needed.
Psychopaths have a very narrow range of emotional reactions. Generally, they are not afraid and it is striking to them to see that someone is afraid.
A psychopath does not have natural empathy but at a certain stage of his development he can learn what social consequences are.
But this is a far cry from the subject itself and also is not even related to morality from a philosophical point of view.
If someone wants to, they can open a thread and we will deal with it there (in the corresponding section).
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 5:10 am
As I had mentioned, I have downloaded the paper and read it thoroughly.
There is no mentioned of the will since it is dependent on chemicals.
I mean, it doesn't prove your point.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 5:10 am
I did not assert that psychopathy is corrected [cured, repaired] with the exercise of the person's will.
Once there are damage to the relevant part of the brain, then there is a 'permanent' state of psychopathy.
The degrees of damage will determine the person's psychopathy is malignant or benign, with variations in between the extremes.
What I implied is, a psychopath whose psychopathy is benign or of low malignancy can use his will to inhibit his psychopathic impulses. Thus when such a psychopath feel the tendency to kill or harm humans, he can use his will to activate the inhibitors to suppress those harmful impulses.
Note this article - there are loads of similar research papers;
How psychopaths control their ‘dark impulses’
The ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, which is related to self-control, could determine how well someone with psychopathic tendencies can control their impulses.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/how-p ... -impulses/
The point with 'self-control' and 'control their impulses' is about using the will to activate inhibitors.
Here is another article re control by psychopaths:
https://digest.bps.org.uk/2020/08/12/su ... -impulses/
Lasko and Chester found that participants who’d initially scored highly for grandiose-manipulative psychopathic traits (traits associated with arrogance and self-centredness as well as manipulativeness) went on to show steeper increases over time in two forms of conscientiousness: impulse control and the suppression of aggression.
Importantly, this effect was notably larger within the “successful” group. It seems, then, that successful psychopaths are those who show real improvements at controlling their impulses, to achieve their goals.
“This exacerbated development of conscientiousness-defining traits is likely able to compensate for the heightened antisocial tendencies of these psychopathic individuals, bringing them into a self-regulatory balance that enables them to function in society,” the researchers write.
Though the term 'will' was not used,
how can these psychopaths are able to control, suppress and regulate, their psychopathy towards "success" if they do not use their will.
Note the term "conscientiousness" above also imply 'will-power'.
The answer to your question is that these individuals have a greater operational capacity to process consequences derived from their behavior.
Psychopathy is a spectrum.
I mean, consciousness and will are related? A greater consciousness, greater will and vice versa?