And as for that value framework being valuable because it’s human—why, it’s just the other way around: humans have received a moral gift, which Pebblesorters lack, in that we started out interested in things like happiness instead of just prime pebble heaps.
And as for that value framework being p-valuable because it’s Pebblesorter—why, it’s just the other way around: Pebblesorters have received a p-moral gift, which humans lack, in that they started out interested in prime pebble heaps instead of just things like happiness.
It is only when you look out from within the perspective of morality, that it seems like a great wonder that natural selection could produce true friendship. And it is only when you look out from within the perspective of morality, that it seems like a great blessing that there are humans around to colonize the galaxies and do something interesting with them. From a purely causal perspective, nothing unlawful has happened.
It is only when you look out from within the perspective of p-morality, that it seems like a great wonder that natural selection could produce Pebblesorters. And it is only when you look out from within the perspective of p-morality, that it seems like a great blessing that there are Pebblesorters around to turn the galaxies into pebbles and sort them into prime-numbered heaps. From a purely causal perspective, nothing unlawful has happened.
But from a moral perspective, the wonder is that there are these human brains around that happen to want to help each other—a great wonder indeed, since human brains don’t define rightness, any more than natural selection defines rightness.
But from a p-moral perspective, the p-wonder is that there are these Pebblesorter brains around that happen to want to sort pebbles into prime-numbered heaps—a great p-wonder indeed, since Pebblesorter brains don’t define primeness, any more than natural selection defines primeness.
And as for that value framework being p-valuable because it’s Pebblesorter—why, it’s just the other way around: Pebblesorters have received a p-moral gift, which humans lack, in that they started out interested in prime pebble heaps instead of just things like happiness.
It is only when you look out from within the perspective of p-morality, that it seems like a great wonder that natural selection could produce Pebblesorters. And it is only when you look out from within the perspective of p-morality, that it seems like a great blessing that there are Pebblesorters around to turn the galaxies into pebbles and sort them into prime-numbered heaps. From a purely causal perspective, nothing unlawful has happened.
But from a p-moral perspective, the p-wonder is that there are these Pebblesorter brains around that happen to want to sort pebbles into prime-numbered heaps—a great p-wonder indeed, since Pebblesorter brains don’t define primeness, any more than natural selection defines primeness.
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