The disgust response is a rather silly foundation for a world view. It’s like a life lived as one long eeewwwwwwwwww…
But approximately 75% of world views are founded on exactly that
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Isn't everything just post hoc justifications of one's life path dependant aesthetics?
Disgust, anger, etc. qualia are where all value / axiomatic choices really come from.
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That's just how you feel man :-)
How else would one pick axioms than by (broadly conceived of) aesthetics?
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Who needs axioms? Do you literally have axioms? Like a 3 laws of Nickotics?
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We're implicitly creating them by our choices.
People aren't super consistent, but most often arguments when arguments aren't from definitional/semantic confusion, they're from different implicit axioms which recur in all of their arguments.
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When I argue politics with my right-wing dad, I generally just say "Your argument requires X [axiom], would you ever change your view on that?" He says no, and we move on.
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Are you able to reduce his axioms to a fundamental set of 5 or even 50? I bet not. Humans aren’t axiomatic. We hold hundreds of fragmented belief islands, each based on a few situational rather than axiomatic beliefs. Hedgehog-mind is an illusory map on top of a fox territory.
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We agree that's there's lot of islands, etc. (I am an SFI fan after all) But I actually think I could reduce it to about 50 to get 80% predictability on his views a priori.
Most people have pretty low Kolmogorov Complexity and are decently consistent.
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I’d take that bet. Even people with very stable small-town lives are more complex when you poke a bit.
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