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Summary: Teens who display callous-unemotional traits are at higher risk of developing psychopathic traits as they enter adulthood.A pioneering study with the Portuguese population shows that adolescents with high levels of callous-unemotional traits demonstrate lower levels of anticipated guilt towards the possibility of committing an immoral act and struggle to judge an immoral act as a wrong one.Although the callous-unemotional traits in adolescents are known to be precursors of psychopathy in adulthood, the results of the study differ from what is known about psychopaths. “Adults with psychopathic traits show low levels of anticipated guilt but consider immoral actions as wrong. However, in our study, adolescents with high CU levels show levels of guilt and judge immoral actions as less wrong,” explains Margarida Vasconcelos, first author.However, researchers have found evidence of a dissociation between moral emotions and moral judgment, that is, between the feelings of guilt and the judgment of immoral actions. “Even in adolescents with sub-clinical levels of callous-unemotional traits, this dissociation typical in psychopathy in adulthood is already happening during development,” explains the study coordinator Ana Seara Cardoso.
What are their greed and power for? Those are meaningless for them once they die.
Summary: Teens who display callous-unemotional traits are at higher risk of developing psychopathic traits as they enter adulthood.
Which is why they do their evil when they are alive.
A philosophy is more advanced if it is based on more accurate description of objective reality.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 17/04/2021 19:57:37A philosophy is more advanced if it is based on more accurate description of objective reality.That's the basis of science, not philosophy.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 18/04/2021 22:40:39Summary: Teens who display callous-unemotional traits are at higher risk of developing psychopathic traits as they enter adulthood.In other words, an old psychopath is a young psychopath who got older. I'm sure that discovery cost the taxpayer a lot of money.
Science started as a branch of philosophy, namely natural philosophy.
Not all psychopaths end up as criminal.
Many successful surgeons are known to have psychopathic traits at various degrees.
Nothing to do with morals, just the everyday business of politics.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 19/04/2021 16:22:49Science started as a branch of philosophy, namely natural philosophy.That statement is symptomatic of the arrogance of philosophers. Philosophy has never been anything more than intellectual masturbation and has nothing to do with scientific investigation.
Not quite a psychopath, but a man who can set empathy aside and take calculated risks on the basis of pure science and the desire to save lives.
Copernicus, Bruno and Galileo preceded Newton. The problem is that the word "science" didn't appear until the 18th century, although scientific method can be traced back to 3000 BC.
Despite the publication ban, Galileo published his Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences (Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche, intorno a due nuove scienze) in 1638 in Holland, outside the jurisdiction of the Inquisition.
Whatever happened in the past will become memory for present and future conscious beings. Whatever we are doing now are becoming events in the past. If our actions have no effect whatsoever to future conscious beings, they will be meaningless. It could happen if we go extinct and the conscious beings exist in the future emerge/evolve independently from our lineage. Whatever the future conscious beings might be, they are extremely unlikely to appear suddenly out of nowhere in a single shot. It's much more probable that they will emerge as products of evolutionary process through natural selection in many generations. The process will be continued by artificial selection. The variations of their characteristics will shift from mainly provided by random mutation to a more directed intentional changes.
Directed intentional changes means that before implementation, the changes would be simulated first in a virtual environment. It can be someone's brain or many types of computers, or some experimental setup. Only changes wich are expected to bring intended consequences and minimum unwanted side effects will then be implemented. Otherwise they would be discarded.
We can't change conditions of the past. So we shouldn't waste our time and other resources trying to do that. Present condition will become the past in a moment. Hence we should direct our efforts and allocate resources to improve our conditions in the future. The conscious beings exist in the future could include the continuation of our ego, our direct descendants, or something else that we create. They are basically modified duplicates of ourselves, better suited for future conditions. So if our actions now don't align with the goal of improving the well being of future conscious beings, those actions will be considered as wasteful, hence must be hindered.
Morality talks about the good and bad things from the perspective of conscious beings
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 21/04/2021 06:06:30Morality talks about the good and bad things from the perspective of conscious beingsNo, just from the perspective of homo sapiens. Even if you could define conscious, we have very little idea of what any other species thinks.