Morality is part of your preferences, same as the emotion of happiness and other things. It’s implemented within your brain, the part that judges situations as “fair” or “unfair”, etc. I don’t understand why you want to go looking for something more objective than that. What if you eventually find that grand light in the sky, the holy grail of “objective morality” expressed as a simple beautiful formula, and it tells you that torturing babies is intrinsically good? Will you listen to it, or to the computation within your own brain?
Seconding Nesov’s suggestion to read more of the sequences. The topic that interests you has been pretty thoroughly covered.
Morality is part of your preferences, same as the emotion of happiness and other things. It’s implemented within your brain, the part that judges situations as “fair” or “unfair”, etc. I don’t understand why you want to go looking for something more objective than that. What if you eventually find that grand light in the sky, the holy grail of “objective morality” expressed as a simple beautiful formula, and it tells you that torturing babies is intrinsically good? Will you listen to it, or to the computation within your own brain?
Seconding Nesov’s suggestion to read more of the sequences. The topic that interests you has been pretty thoroughly covered.