If morality is totally non-predictive then it shouldn’t be in our model of the world.
The point of morality is to change the world, not model it.
If morality is non-predictive, then even if we act morally, it’s for reasons totally divorced from morality!
If we act morally, the morality we are acting on predicts our actions. Your beef seems to be with the idea
that morality is not some universal causal law—that you have to choose it. There will be a causal explanation
of behaviour at the neuronal level, but that doesn’t exclude an explanation at the level of moral reasoning,any more than an explanation of a computers operation at the level of electrons excludes a software level explanation.
If morality is non-predictive, then when we try to act morally we might as well just flip a coin, because no causal process can access “morality”!
A causal process can implement moral reasoning just as it can implement mathematical reasoning.
Your objection is a category error. like saying a software is an immaterial abstraction that doesn’t cause a computer to do anything.
That’s why morality has to predict things, and that’s why it has to be inside peoples’ heads.
Morality is inside people’s heads since it is a form of reasoning. Where did I say otherwise?
The point of morality is to change the world, not model it.
If we act morally, the morality we are acting on predicts our actions. Your beef seems to be with the idea that morality is not some universal causal law—that you have to choose it. There will be a causal explanation of behaviour at the neuronal level, but that doesn’t exclude an explanation at the level of moral reasoning,any more than an explanation of a computers operation at the level of electrons excludes a software level explanation.
A causal process can implement moral reasoning just as it can implement mathematical reasoning. Your objection is a category error. like saying a software is an immaterial abstraction that doesn’t cause a computer to do anything.
Morality is inside people’s heads since it is a form of reasoning. Where did I say otherwise?
Oh, okay, I take back my big rant then. Sorry :D