Not sure why this got removed from 196lemmy…blahaj.zone but it would be real nice if moderation on Lemmy gave you some sort of notification of what you did wrong. Like an automatic DM or something

    • FluffyPotato@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Not really, if absolutely every single human at all stages of life believed it’s morally good to spit in their palm every day that would be an objective moral truth, there would be no subjectivity to it. For morals though no such thing exists.

      You don’t need to be able to observe it externally to distinguish it. For example i can say I have a conscious experience and that would be objectively true even though we have a pretty minimal understanding on what that really is or how to measure it.

        • FluffyPotato@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          You can measure brain activity but not consciousness. Consciousness is most likely an emerging property of brain activity but we can’t really say more with out current understanding of it.

          • robo@feddit.uk
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            1 year ago

            You can ever solve a mystery you can’t properly identify to begin with.

            People feel like something more than physical is going on. Rather than see it as a natural consequence of abstract thinking and self-reflection, they jump to the conclusion that this sense is supernatural.

            Science isn’t in the business of examining vague hunches. The first step to getting an answer is deciding what there is to explain. Our current theories on the brain are compatable with people thinking about their own thoughts, and even having emotional reactions to that process.

            Nothing out of the ordinary, nothing contradicting the scientific worldview has happened. So what is there to explain?

            • FluffyPotato@lemm.ee
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              1 year ago

              What? I never said consciousness in supernatural, just that we have a poor understanding of it and no way to measure it. I was just using it as an example of an objective statement for something we can’t externally confirm.

                • FluffyPotato@lemm.ee
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                  1 year ago

                  Again, this is completely irrelevant to my original point…

                  What we consider consciousness to be is pretty broad, though self-awareness is a common one and that can’t be measured with any current instrument.