>From: ASpidle@aol.com <ASpidle@aol.com>
>Great thinking Eric!! Don't you think it's time to develop a more
appropriate
>moral code that all intelligent beings could sign on to??
What about this shot at an objective morality?
Metamorality: Morality is by definition good. For morality to exist, there has to be something. Morality cannot exist in nothing. Before the big bang there was no universe, thus no morality.
I think I disagree. Before there was sentient life, there was no morality. Morality makes no sense (as a system to support our decision-making) without a self-reflective ability to choose between yes and no, should and should not. Life which does not have this ability is simply following its blind genetic coding.
Morality: Anything that makes the universe exist longer and fights the entropy is moral. The highest form of morality is whatever increases extropy.
But isn't this an arbitrary definition (ie., non-objective?). Why should we think that it is a good definition? How does it help us predict human behavior?
Couldn't it be as simple as that?
Things are never that simple :-)
Regards,
Eric
J. Eric Mortensen, eric@episteme.no
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