“Renormalizing intuition”—that sounds like making sure all the intuitions are consistent and proportional to each other. Which is analogous to a coherence theory of truth as against a correspondence one. But you can make something as internally consistent as you like and maybe it still bears no relation to reality. It is necessary to know where the intuitions came from and what they mean.
Ideas such as good and evil are abstract, and the mind of a newborn can’t hold abstract ideas, only simple concretes. So those ideas can’t have already been there at birth, simply because of how abstract they are. Therefore the intuitions must be learned after birth, which means they most likely come from society. Which means other people. Other people who have no more magic source of truth than we do.
So all we are doing is sorting through and evening out the opinions of others that we have subconsciously absorbed, which doesn’t seem a very scientific way to go.
“Renormalizing intuition”—that sounds like making sure all the intuitions are consistent and proportional to each other. Which is analogous to a coherence theory of truth as against a correspondence one. But you can make something as internally consistent as you like and maybe it still bears no relation to reality. It is necessary to know where the intuitions came from and what they mean.
Ideas such as good and evil are abstract, and the mind of a newborn can’t hold abstract ideas, only simple concretes. So those ideas can’t have already been there at birth, simply because of how abstract they are. Therefore the intuitions must be learned after birth, which means they most likely come from society. Which means other people. Other people who have no more magic source of truth than we do.
So all we are doing is sorting through and evening out the opinions of others that we have subconsciously absorbed, which doesn’t seem a very scientific way to go.