[MD] Distinguishing Levels

[ian glendinning]

Platt,

Ha, no I didn't, but that's one of over 300 papers / abstracts in that
link I gave you (not the one I was referring to, nor one of the many
I've linked to previously.)

If we were looking for a phrase that supported something we already
believed, or sounded so incredible as to ridicule something we didn't,
we could all find a dozen examples such a long screed of text.

However, I'm never surprised to find Pirsgian views confirmed in other
quality thinking (and even some suspect thinking too.) I see nothing
controversial in the selected quote ?

All wisdom recognises that knowledge involves "values".
Only narrow science denies it.
Ian

On 6/4/06, Platt Holden <pholden at davtv.com> wrote:
> Ian:
>
> > See the Charles Whitehead paper lower down this (very long) page of
> > abstracts on the Science of Consciousness.
> > http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/abstracts.htm
>
> Did you happen to catch this passage in the above reference?
>
> "It is believed that morals are acquired attitudes. However, Joshua
> Greene, et al. have recently created experimental neuroscience using
> moral dilemmas and brain scan measures that emotional responses to
> various moral issues appear to be innate, independent of cultural and
> environmental factors. The basic moral attitudes of all cultures are
> biological, although they vary in ways of demonstration through action
> and language. Greene has reviewed the underlying philosophers from
> Aristotle to present inquiries in his paper "From Neural 'is' to moral
> 'ought': What are the moral implications of neuroscientific moral
> psychology?" If it is assumed that the material received by Greene is
> confirmed by further research, the impact on philosophers, theologians,
> and neuropsychologists could be very disturbing, and even alarming to
> people in general. It is now accepted by biologists that species other
> than ourselves can act as if they have 'moral' action, with examples
> such as anthropoids."
>
> Sounds like scientific support for Pirsig's thesis of a universal moral
> order wouldn't you say?
>
> Platt
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