lukeprog comments on What is Metaethics? - Less Wrong

31 Post author: lukeprog 25 April 2011 04:53PM

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Comment author: lukeprog 30 April 2011 03:23:52PM 5 points [-]

I remember Greene's position being more nuanced than that, but it's been a while since I read his dissertation. In any case, I'm not defending his view. I only claimed that (in its revised wording) "We use our recently-evolved neocortex to make utilitarian judgments, and deontological judgments tend to come from evolutionarily older parts of our brains."