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Originally Posted by LadyShea
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Originally Posted by Iacchus
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Originally Posted by Listener
That sounds like what Gilbert Ryle called a "category error" to me. QM is about physics. Ethics is about behaviour/psychology.
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That's the whole point though. If QM is the very basis of reality, how can this not be what ethics are all about? You have to postulate something prior to QM, where ethics already exist, in their full scope and totality, in order to make the distinction. Otherwise you are saying there's no basis for it, other than random noise.
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Ethics are a construct of human consciousness
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Provided of course we can compartmentalize such things in our mind and say this is as far as it goes. This is all you are really saying here. What do you attribute human consciousness to, other than the neuro-firings in the brain? That in itself is not a complete answer, because it only provides the means by which information (both internal and external) is processed, and is not the information itself. Neither does it constitute that (a.k.a., "the thinker") which reflects upon the information. In other words how does matter, which is simply ascribed to a process that is dictated and goes about its own thing, become self-aware?
No so, unless that propensity for self-awareness existed beforehand.