lukeprog comments on My intentions for my metaethics sequence - Less Wrong

15 Post author: lukeprog 30 August 2011 04:52PM

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Comment author: lukeprog 03 September 2011 10:29:51PM *  0 points [-]

Yeah, I'm not sure exactly what Wei Dai and Vladimir Nesov have in mind when they talk about a shared concept of 'ought' or of 'right'. Will Sawin talks about humans having a cognitive module devoted to the processing of 'ought', which I also find implausible given the last 30 years of psychology and neuroscience. I think I have a different view (than Dai, Nesov, and Sawin) of what concepts are and how they are likely to work, but I'd have to put serious time into a post to explain this clearly, I think. For the moment, those who are interested in the subject should read the SEP articles on concepts and mental representation.

Comment author: lukeprog 04 September 2011 02:59:56AM *  1 point [-]