byrnema comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

97 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 March 2010 11:23PM

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Comment author: byrnema 18 March 2010 09:07:10PM *  0 points [-]

So then what did you mean by this?

I think "making the argument that humans have some special moral place in the world" in the absence of an eternal soul is very easy for someone intelligent enough to think about how close humans and goldfish are "in the space of 'things that one can construct out of atoms.'"

Comment author: Hook 18 March 2010 09:15:00PM 0 points [-]

Jack and mattnewport both seemed to do a good job above.

Comment author: byrnema 18 March 2010 09:27:11PM 0 points [-]

You seem to be equivocating. What do you really think?

(1) Do you believe there are logical reasons for terminal values?

(2) Do you believe that it would be easy to argue that humans have special moral status even without divine external validation (e.g., without a soul)?

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