Yes I feel that you are talking in vague but positive generalities.
First, on a side note, what do you mean by “but positive”? As in idealistic?
Excuse my vagueness. I think it comes from trying to cover too much at once. I am going to pick on a fundamental idea i have and see your response because if you update my opinion on this, it will cover much of the other issues you raised.
I wrote a small post (www.wikilogicfoundation.org/351-2/) on what i view as the starting point for building knowledge. In summary it says our only knowledge is that of our thought and the inputs that influence them. It is on a similar vein to “I think therefore i am” (although, maybe it should be “thoughts, therefore thoughts are” to keep the pedantics happy) . I did not mention it in the article but if we try and break it down like this, we can see that our only purpose is to satisfy our urges. For example, if we experience a God telling us we should worship them and be ‘good’ to be rewarded, we have no reason to do this unless we want to satisfy our urge to be rewarded. So no matter our believes, we all have the same core drive - to satisfy our internal demands. The next question is whether these are best satisfied cooperatively or competitively.
However i imagine you have a lot of objections thus far so i will stop to see what you have to say about that. Feel free to link me to anything relevant explaining alternate points of view if you think a post will take too long.
What I mean by “vague but positive” is that you keep saying there is no problem, but not saying why.
I wrote a small post (www.wikilogicfoundation.org/351-2/) on what i view as the starting point for building knowledge. In summary it says our only knowledge is that of our thought and the inputs that influence them.
That’s a standard starting point. I am not seeing anything that dissolves the standard problems.
So no matter our believes, we all have the same core drive—to satisfy our internal demands.
We all have the same meta-desire, whilst having completely different object level desires. How is that helping?
First, on a side note, what do you mean by “but positive”? As in idealistic? Excuse my vagueness. I think it comes from trying to cover too much at once. I am going to pick on a fundamental idea i have and see your response because if you update my opinion on this, it will cover much of the other issues you raised.
I wrote a small post (www.wikilogicfoundation.org/351-2/) on what i view as the starting point for building knowledge. In summary it says our only knowledge is that of our thought and the inputs that influence them. It is on a similar vein to “I think therefore i am” (although, maybe it should be “thoughts, therefore thoughts are” to keep the pedantics happy) . I did not mention it in the article but if we try and break it down like this, we can see that our only purpose is to satisfy our urges. For example, if we experience a God telling us we should worship them and be ‘good’ to be rewarded, we have no reason to do this unless we want to satisfy our urge to be rewarded. So no matter our believes, we all have the same core drive - to satisfy our internal demands. The next question is whether these are best satisfied cooperatively or competitively. However i imagine you have a lot of objections thus far so i will stop to see what you have to say about that. Feel free to link me to anything relevant explaining alternate points of view if you think a post will take too long.
What I mean by “vague but positive” is that you keep saying there is no problem, but not saying why.
That’s a standard starting point. I am not seeing anything that dissolves the standard problems.
We all have the same meta-desire, whilst having completely different object level desires. How is that helping?