Science Forums 2

[Kriminal99]

1. Cognitive Scientists do not have any privileged position with regard to such issues. Education programs for this do not succeed in creating people with a high level of creativity in thought or efficiency in generalizing from experiences, yet this is what is required to decipher the nature of ourselves. To create such people, conditioning outside the scope of what contemporary education is limited to would be required.

All that comes out of Cognitive science programs are people who are proficient at spewing inane bullhonkey with a tone as if they knew something you didn't because of your unfamiliarity with their private language. Even if you take the time to learn their labels for concepts you could otherwise learn through life experience, you find that their arguments are not particularly advanced or well thought out compared to ones you can find elsewhere.

I fail to see a formal network of concepts that is even alluded to by the excerpt provided. Mountain music to Classical? What exactly does that mean, if anything?

2. It is simply the truth that there is a universal moral code that can determine what should be done in any situation. In some situations, it might be more than what the human mind is capable of to process/calculate what should be done on the spot. (How many will be overall harmed and in what manner, vs how many will be overall benefited and in what manner? ) But that does not mean there isn't an answer. Sometimes information is limited, which has it's own rules to govern what must be done.

I can definitely accept a claim that people often oversimplify moral reasoning. Hell, when I think about it, I could fill a book with nothing but precise formalizations of moral rules similar to what a mathematics text might be filled with.

However I don't agree that there are no universal rules and that there are no categorical rules.

I'm not even sure what a lack of categorical rules would mean - no situation could be compared to past situations in this case and all courses of action would always be equally moral.