Ethics Reloaded! - Universally Preferable Behavior

high def: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CueDiner6t0&fmt=18
An animated introduction to Universally Preferable Behavior: A Rational Proof of Secular Ethics, from Freedomain Radio - the entire book is free at http://www.freedomainradio.com/free#UPB

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[DeeperBlueX16]

i dont get it. why is it universal? why does this define ethics? why cant it determine specific instances?

[stefbot]

Why not read the free book? :)

[awwurdead]

you seem to dismiss determenism very quickly, as if it is for some magical rason required for us to have our mind be seperate from the material universe

[stefbot]

as if -- and yet not... :)

[peope1976]

I cannot see that you have put forward any persuasive argument against determinism. (Of course not talking about fatalism). And your model is then based on that prerequisite. It seems from your model that you are saying that the mind is only partially within the material world (or the real world. (or to extend the material world. All that is.). Is this correct? I assume you do not claim that the mind is more than all that is. How do you define the material world?

[hughtub]

Good, except for the implication that race is just as imaginary as gods. Humans are less related than dogs are to coyotes or wolves, according to their mtDNA difference. Race is absolutely real. Contrast Paul Bettany with KRS-One, or Dolph Lundgren with Jerry Stackhouse, or Cheryl Ladd with Whoopi Goldberg. Evolution is real. Human evolution is real. Intermixing between early homo sapiens and homo erectus was more widespread in Africa. Michael Jordan looks more advanced than other Africans, no?

[Scientisticsoviet]

So the fact that truth is "universally preferable " to falsehood I assume is an moral/ethical axiom, as opposed to a statement of fact: That people universally prefer truth to falsehood.

[Scientisticsoviet]

Dream elephants can exist in reality insofar as they are chemical and neurochemical states.

[Scientisticsoviet]

The problem is that in determinist system there can states that are preferred; ei that the raindrop goes left rather than right. Whether it will occur or not is another question. And to the extent that an observer within the deterministic system "prefers one outcome or another can also be deterministic as well. So we have the determined preference not matching up with the determined outcome.

[TreachMarkets]

Hi Stef, thanks for this 30,000 ft view, getting ready to read the book now!

[therookie93]

@Emil246 they obviously don't.