Moral emotions are intrinsic punishment for breaches of social contracts. This makes behaviors predictable (along with empathy, self-interest & reputation) which is necessary to establish trust between aut agents as trust is the degree of belief that contracts are adhered to.
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Moral emotions are similar to feeling guilty for eating a cookie. Once you have a certain level of adult self awareness you don’t need guilt to abstain from eating the cookies that make your world worse.
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Are there moral emotions at work here? Toddler is governed by the lizard brain https://twitter.com/i/status/1060222219203293184 …
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I don’t think so. Also, it’s a very unusual toddler!
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As Hume argued: Reason can help us get what we want, but it can't tell us what we ought to want. That's what emotions do. Even Kant needs emotions (das moralische Gefuehl) as part of the good will to make his categorical imperative work.
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I think you might mix up motivation and emotion. Motivation is based on needs and does not require emotion.
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The same reflexes as bacteria and amoebas .. survival instinct .Emotions are shaped by the morals of a culture ,socially constructed. This is how you should feel and act.. first trough religion now it’s education. But that Doesn’t change the nature of a beast ..I mean baby .
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Why would reflexes stop once a new layer is built on top of them? I certainly don't eat by consciously controlling my swallow muscles. Moral emotions are quite the same. Background processes with full control and power. Do you read Haidt?
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Reflexes stop when they would interfere with learned behavior. (They would make it worse.) Reflexive and unconscious are not the same. Most learned behavior becomes unconscious one it does not require attention any more.
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well this is weird as hell but ok
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