Morality is just a certain innate functionality in our brains as it expresses itself based on our life experiences. This is entirely consistent with the assertion that what most people mean by morality—an objective standard of conduct that is written into the fabric of reality itself—does not exist: there is no such thing!
To use Eliezer’s terminology, you seem to be saying that “morality” is a 2-place word:
Morality: Species, Act → [0, â)
which can be “curried”, i.e. can “eat” the first input to become a 1-place word:
Morality is just a certain innate functionality in our brains as it expresses itself based on our life experiences. This is entirely consistent with the assertion that what most people mean by morality—an objective standard of conduct that is written into the fabric of reality itself—does not exist: there is no such thing!
To use Eliezer’s terminology, you seem to be saying that “morality” is a 2-place word:
Morality: Species, Act → [0, â)
which can be “curried”, i.e. can “eat” the first input to become a 1-place word:
Homosapiens::Morality == Morality_93745