wodo26
wodo26 t1_irupfww wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Patricia Churchland argues that morality is rooted in our Darwinian biology. She links morality to warm-bloodedness, which required an adaptation to care for others (originally, infants). This is the biological basis for unselfish concern, and later, moral intuitions. by Ma3Ke4Li3
Maybe she's wrong but your argument is incomplete, saying something developed alongside language doesn't explain how it evolved or what relationship it has to language. What if both language and morality have a deeper rooted cause / selective pressure? Sure morality and language are intertwined but so are all of human concepts and mechanisms available to our cognition, otherwise we wouldn't be able to talk about it right now or retrospect. That does not mean that mechanism doesn't exist independent of language to some degree. In fact I would argue that language in its current form is only capable of representing morality in an objective way which does not exist in real world, hinting to us a more complex relationship between language and the actual source/reason for morality. See what Wittgenstein wrote on this topic and you will understand what I mean. Bottom line is that either explanation is not very satisfactory to me because both are partially wrong or incomplete, calling it flat out bullshit is trivializing the issue and pretending we have the complete answer.
wodo26 t1_irum25p wrote
Reply to comment by TMax01 in Patricia Churchland argues that morality is rooted in our Darwinian biology. She links morality to warm-bloodedness, which required an adaptation to care for others (originally, infants). This is the biological basis for unselfish concern, and later, moral intuitions. by Ma3Ke4Li3
Before you two commit too deeply on a "deal with it" type of argumentation, what do you think is so special about humans? And how do you take into account the gulf between a human with severe cognitive deficit vs Albert Einstein level of cognition? What bare minimum do humans have that other animals lack?
wodo26 t1_ixfkr9f wrote
Reply to Eye, M. C. Escher, mezzotint and drypoint, 1946 by globeworldmap
Looks 3d but...
..closing one eye actually enhances the 3d effect. Might seem counter intuitive since we use two eyes for stereo vision but for flat images single eye seems to tricks the brain more effectively into computing 3d imagery.