Precisely. Science can tell us that an axe will cut off someone's head. Something else is needed to tell us whether and when it is ethical to do that. That will be morality & this comes from our brains.
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If you say tha you can leave philosoph (morality) out of the picture, and just let it all to science and scientific facts. Well, yeah...
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Well, no. The point seems to be where does the morality come from and we both agree it's brains. There are scientific facts about our moral brains. I just finished Sapalsky's book on it. Our brains are a scientific fact so in that sense morality is produced by them. BUT:
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I assumed you meant that when we get to the point of discussion, of argument, then we have to distinguish between what is and what ought to be on that level. Eg Can axes chop heads off? Yes. Should we use them for that? Only in very rare & specific cases. Let's discuss.
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It all reduces to scientific facts in the end but we don't have access to all that info & it'd probably be too complicated to manage if we did so we're left arguing morality in terms of premises, principles and facts to aid us working stuff out.
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