our moral dispositions are not innate, like the sting is in the bee, morality is not divinely ordered
we do not need divine permission, your inner voice, so called, is not some God given arbiter
when, for example you give blood, you do not do so not through divine guidance, more believably you do it out of a utilitarianism, the common good, or you do it out of a consequentialism, some day I might need a donation of my blood type which is quite rare.
As to the inner voice, what is now being realized in our techno age, is that one's inner voice, moral
sense, is composed of algorithms, our DNA, our genes, our biometrics, our neurons, meurons function as simple computational units: each receives multiple inputs but has only a single output – on or off
and of course bio chemical make up which dictates the working of our brain.
Then we come back to the perennial cliched question of whether we have 'Free Will'
well, if you believe in your genetic inheritance, or evolution, or DNA or neurons, or algorithms you don't.
we do not need divine permission, your inner voice, so called, is not some God given arbiter
when, for example you give blood, you do not do so not through divine guidance, more believably you do it out of a utilitarianism, the common good, or you do it out of a consequentialism, some day I might need a donation of my blood type which is quite rare.
As to the inner voice, what is now being realized in our techno age, is that one's inner voice, moral
sense, is composed of algorithms, our DNA, our genes, our biometrics, our neurons, meurons function as simple computational units: each receives multiple inputs but has only a single output – on or off
and of course bio chemical make up which dictates the working of our brain.
Then we come back to the perennial cliched question of whether we have 'Free Will'
well, if you believe in your genetic inheritance, or evolution, or DNA or neurons, or algorithms you don't.
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