Woe is us! We may never know the true morality even if we knew all physical facts!”
I pretty strongly suspect that there is no such thing as “true morality”. There’s nothing to know, even if we know all the physical facts. We can know how individual segments of space-time (we call them “people”) process and model themselves and each other, but we already know a bit about that, and there’s no indication that it’s any deeper or more “true” than any other evolved cognition.
Genocide is morally impermissable in my mind, and in many modern humans. That’s an individual and group preference about the world. Preferences are physical facts in some sense, in that they’re embodied in the physics of brains. But they’re not fundamental nor universal in the way we normally think of physics.
I think that may be my confusion about this post—you’re exploring CONDITIONAL on moral realism, rather than trying to show that moral realism is correct. Thanks for the discussion, and helping me understand.
I pretty strongly suspect that there is no such thing as “true morality”. There’s nothing to know, even if we know all the physical facts. We can know how individual segments of space-time (we call them “people”) process and model themselves and each other, but we already know a bit about that, and there’s no indication that it’s any deeper or more “true” than any other evolved cognition.
Genocide is morally impermissable in my mind, and in many modern humans. That’s an individual and group preference about the world. Preferences are physical facts in some sense, in that they’re embodied in the physics of brains. But they’re not fundamental nor universal in the way we normally think of physics.
I think that may be my confusion about this post—you’re exploring CONDITIONAL on moral realism, rather than trying to show that moral realism is correct. Thanks for the discussion, and helping me understand.