I know my own values because they’re what I try to maximize. All that’s apparent to me is my qualia, and, while I concede that other people have qualia, I see no importance in anything that isn’t someone’s qualia.
I’m not disputing your line of thought, but I still wonder about something I touched upon before, if neuroscience or the likes would dissolve qualia into smaller components, and it would become apparent to you that “There is no unitary thing as qualia/mind frame, the momentary experience is reducible, but an anthill, a screen with pixels”. Would that exhort you to reassess your utopia?
I see no reason that the reducibility of something would deny it’s potential status as something to be valued. I could value whirlpools without denying that they’re made of water, or (for an example closer to reality) literature without denying that it’s made up of words which are made up of letters.
Agreed. But if you read DanielLC’s argument he seem to think that that the reducibility of for example personal identity makes it unimportant in terms of value since it can be reduced to “mind frames” over time. Basically I wonder if his understanding of qualia (if that even such a thing really exists) would be totally wrong or could be reduced, would he then claim that mind frames are morally unimportant because the can be reduced to something ells or that the concept is misleading.
I’m not disputing your line of thought, but I still wonder about something I touched upon before, if neuroscience or the likes would dissolve qualia into smaller components, and it would become apparent to you that “There is no unitary thing as qualia/mind frame, the momentary experience is reducible, but an anthill, a screen with pixels”. Would that exhort you to reassess your utopia?
I see no reason that the reducibility of something would deny it’s potential status as something to be valued. I could value whirlpools without denying that they’re made of water, or (for an example closer to reality) literature without denying that it’s made up of words which are made up of letters.
Sorry for taking such a long time to answer.
Agreed. But if you read DanielLC’s argument he seem to think that that the reducibility of for example personal identity makes it unimportant in terms of value since it can be reduced to “mind frames” over time. Basically I wonder if his understanding of qualia (if that even such a thing really exists) would be totally wrong or could be reduced, would he then claim that mind frames are morally unimportant because the can be reduced to something ells or that the concept is misleading.