G. Alston
Many of you here simply cannot read English. Here’s a synopsis: People claim modernity and yet reject the idea that evolution also includes natural development of morals. They reject reality. They are no more modern than the muslims.
You seem rather full of yourself G. Alston. It seems to me though that you don’t actually consider or even pay attention to what your interlocutors tell you. Your responses doesn’t really address what you have been told. It seems as though much of the time you are making straw man arguments laced with ad hominem abuse.
BTW: if you are referring to evolutionary psychology (EP) above … well, even Steven Pinker conceded privately that much of (EP) comes across as little more than “parlor game” speculation. Informed critics question the scientific nature of evolutionary psychology and view much of EP as fanciful “just-so stories”… “just so stories”, much like the credulous folk tales one might find in the Hadith.
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G. Alston wrote:I’d give that one about 50 – 100 years before enough experience with AI and simulation allows man to model well enough to determine if moral behaviour is emergent. If true in the theoretical sim world this isn’t proof that this is what happened in the real world, but says that this COULD happen (and probably did.) From there Ockham’s Razor takes care of the rest of it.
Ockham’s Raxor! You shouldn’t play with sharp objects G. Alston. You could hurt yourself.
I’ve got to say though that you seem rather over confident given that Dr. Roger Penrose applied Gödel’s incompleteness theorem to this very same issue and found your position wanting perhaps impossible, if I understand you correctly.





