As I had stated your views [based on mind-independence of philosophical realism] are grounded on an illusion.Peter Holmes wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 9:42 amNone of these facts about human neurology and instincts has any bearing on morality. Factual premises can't entail moral conclusions.Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 8:23 amYou ignorantly agreed to the above without a proper understanding of the real human-based FSK facts???
First anything to do with morality related to right or wrong strictly is a strawman.
Note this neuroscience-FSK-Fact,
The brain has appx. 100 billion neurons, each with up to 10,000 synapse connectors with the potential and actual permutations of neural combinations.
There are load of neural functions [1K, 10K or 100K?] represented by their specific neural combinations.
Although all the functions are interconnected within the whole brain and body, they are dealt separately within specific human-based scientific FSKs, e.g. primal instincts for survival, food, fight, flight, sex, intellect, social, senses, etc. and morality.
As generally practiced in modern times, each neuro-function is primarily studied as a specialist subject independent of other neuro-functions and other functions are only brought where is is critical.
On a secondary basis, various primary functions may be grouped together as a subject, example neuro-this or that.
I had argued, morality-proper is a primary function of the brain independent of all other functions, e.g. food, sex, fight, intellect, etc.
At a secondary level, morality may be combined with other neural-functions.
The oughtness-not-to-kill-humans belong primarily to morality-proper and its specific physical neural referent in the brain. The moral function is innate but recent emergence within humans since 2 million [higher primates] to 200k [homo-sapiens] ago.
That humans killed other humans is not primarily a moral function, but related to the 'fight' or kill or be killed function which is a primal instinct. This innate function is inherited as necessary since billions of years ago.
The to-kill function [>3 billion years old] is still critical for human survival so they can kill animals for food, but to avoid some lack-of-control evil people from driven by the kill function to kill humans, the moral function ought-not-to-kill-humans [200K years old].
In this sense, we cannot conflate [combine] the to-kill instinct with the ought-not-to-kill-humans of morality-proper.
While they are both human-based neural facts, they are distinct neural functions.
The 'to kill' instinct abused to kill humans is a separate neural activity; it is a primary function as primal instincts and the subject of neural evil_ness; it is not a primary function of morality proper per se.
The main function of morality-proper is to modulate the 'to kill' instinct so that it is not directed at humans.
At present, the morality-proper neural modulator [the objective moral fact -physical sets of neurons] in the majority of humans are weak and under-developed; this is reason why so many humans had been killed by humans since the early on to the present.
How can we make moral improvements and progress if we deny [like PH & gang] the existence of morality-proper neural modulator [the objective moral fact -physical sets of neurons] in the human brain.
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You have no credibility to rely on grounds that are illusory to make judgment of my views which are based on the human-based scientific and moral FSK.
Your illusory ground is this;
1. What is fact is a feature of reality which is just-is, being-so, that is the case, and states of affairs. But these are merely intelligible thoughts, i.e. noumenon which have not demonstrate to be realistic at all.
2. You insist moral conclusions are related to what is right and wrong which are opinions which are not facts as per your definition in 1 which is grounded on an illusion.
3. "Factual premises can't entail moral conclusions" is your claim, but your actual claim is this;
"Illusory factual premise can't entail moral conclusion"
I can agree to the above, because what is illusory cannot entail objective moral conclusions.
But it has no bite, because the ground is illusory.
On the other hand;
1. Human neurology and instincts are human-based science-neural-FSK-ed facts.
2. The human based science FSK-ed facts are the most credible, reliable and objective.
3. When 2 are inputted into a human-based moral FSK, it enable the emergence of objective moral facts of near equivalence to scientific objectivity.
4. Therefore human-based FSK-ed morality is objective.
Analogy:
1. It is a legal fact X was convicted in 2022 as a serial rapist of 50 females in 1980 within a human-based legal FSK in California.
2. The prosecutor relied on human-based scientific FSK-ed fact of DNA found in all the rape kits of the 50 females.
3 In this case, it is the human-based FSK-ed facts of DNA that support the reliability, credibility and objectivity of the objective legal fact X was that serial rapist of 50 females in 1980.
4. Who deny the above legal fact is not credible, reliable and objective?
The above analogy is the same I am trying to argue how the human-based scientific FSK-ed facts can lend credibility, reliability and objectivity to the human-based moral FSK thus enabling the resulting objective moral facts to be credible and objective.
Who do not agree with this? and Why?