You can’t persuade a rock that cheesecake tastes better than dirt, no matter how clever your arguments. Not every possible mind might agree with us, even in principle; there are No Universally Compelling Arguments.
We are born already in motion with godshatter instincts suited to our stone-age ancestral environment of evolutionary adaptation. This part is not simply arbitrary: it had the requisite survival value, or we would not be here talking about it. We are then acculturated to our surrounding society. This part is learned, but not entirely arbitrary either, because culture itself is evolving and subject to selection pressures.
To whatever extent we judge our society to be suboptimal, we must use our evolved/​acculturated minds to do it. What else could we use? But there are reasons we are the way we are, principles that are not simply random.
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You can’t persuade a rock that cheesecake tastes better than dirt, no matter how clever your arguments. Not every possible mind might agree with us, even in principle; there are No Universally Compelling Arguments.
We are born already in motion with godshatter instincts suited to our stone-age ancestral environment of evolutionary adaptation. This part is not simply arbitrary: it had the requisite survival value, or we would not be here talking about it. We are then acculturated to our surrounding society. This part is learned, but not entirely arbitrary either, because culture itself is evolving and subject to selection pressures.
To whatever extent we judge our society to be suboptimal, we must use our evolved/​acculturated minds to do it. What else could we use? But there are reasons we are the way we are, principles that are not simply random.