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It is a big bit, yes. egpic.twitter.com/W25VvRVZ7n
But if our morality is not a combination of our evolved natures and our cultural values, where does it come from?
From reason, as I keep saying. Reason is the magic ingredient which has allowed us to make moral progress.
And where did reason come from & how does it explain ISIS & Switzerland?
Yeah, we've been through this one before. I accept that our ability to reason is thanks to evolution.
But I'm not willing to give evolution full credit for things like Pythagorus' theorem.
What then? If not Pythagorus' evolved abilities and his environment & culture?
Pythagorus' theorem is a thing, cos it's actually true, and we were able to discover it. If it weren't true, it wouldn't be a thing.
What other than evolved abilities, environment & culture is responsible for it?
The knowledge itself is not in our genes. Neither is it in the environment, or was it in the culture.
Humans can think up things that work due to a combination of the three? Or is something else needed?
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