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definition of reason and goal.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 03/08/2023 14:20:00Imagine if our ancestors didn't care if their descendants would live or die. Like it or not, they will die eventually, as will every living thing. There are plenty of fish in the sea, and their parents have absolutely no interest in the young. They just lay their eggs and move on.
Imagine if our ancestors didn't care if their descendants would live or die.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 17/08/2023 13:55:46What makes you think that nobody understand consciousness? People haven't reached a consensus on its meaning doesn't necessarily eliminate the possibility that some of them have already defined it correctly.It's bad science to use a word if there are so many interpretations that you can't assume a common one. I may occasionally do good science badly, but I don't deliberately do bad science.
What makes you think that nobody understand consciousness? People haven't reached a consensus on its meaning doesn't necessarily eliminate the possibility that some of them have already defined it correctly.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 17/08/2023 14:13:01definition of reason and goal.Reason: why I'm doing something (tactics) Goal: what I hope to achieve by doing it (strategy).
My life has no reason - it is a consequence of my parents' actions, and nothing more. I have a number of short term goals, and reasons for prioritising and facilitating progress towards them
How do you prioritize them? It can help you identify your long term goal.
There is just one longterm goal: to die at the time and place, and of the cause, of my own choosing.
Since my preferred cause is hypothermia,
hypothermia
If there are objective moral facts, so what? Why should we care about them? This video outlines the arbitrariness challenge to moral realism, from Jason Kawall's paper "Moral Realism and Arbitrariness"0:00 - Introduction1:17 - The Euthyphro dilemma4:16 - The arbitrariness challenge14:30 - Incoherence?19:27 - Metaphysical distinctness21:51 - The meaning of "ought"31:45 - Motivational internalism
If you restrict yourself to your own individual goals, then of course they will become meaningless after you die. But if you can expand your perspective to larger systems, then your goals can stay meaningful as long as those systems exist. You can think about it like ant scouts or worker bees. Expanding our system is a way to extend the timeline of our goals, even beyond our own individual lifetime.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 02/08/2023 13:45:50Due to entropy, natural selection, and the great filters, conscious entities who will exist in the future Whatever your definition of consciousness, entropy will ensure that it ceases to exist. ΔS > 0, always.
Due to entropy, natural selection, and the great filters, conscious entities who will exist in the future
I heard a case where hypothermia can cause someone to lose finger tips.
In regards to social consciousness, ants and bees are arguably more conscious than human babies. Although they are likely caused by instinct, rather than rational thought, due to their limitations in the size of their neural networks.
The behaviors of those insects are not likely to be goal driven. They don't seem to behave based on the desired physical results outside of their own body.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 21/08/2023 11:10:38The behaviors of those insects are not likely to be goal driven. They don't seem to behave based on the desired physical results outside of their own body. Wrong. Honey bees and soldier ants will die for the future of the Reich, and the entire colony spends most of its time storing food and rearing the next generation, secure in the knowledge that the workers themselves are unlikely to survive the winter.