Vladimir_Nesov comments on Evolutionary psychology as "the truth-killer" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shokwave 26 July 2012 06:54:25AM *  1 point [-]

No, but try and formulate a deterministic moral responsibility that doesn't feel wrong.

(Something like "This is Bob. Last year, physics dictated that his wife suffer a series of stab wounds from a knife that happened to be in his hands. Now, through no choice of my own, my body will administer a lethal injection to his body, so that his non-example will prove utterly unconvincing to anybody else who is already fated to murder their significant other and can do nothing about it.")

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 26 July 2012 07:18:06AM *  2 points [-]

Presence of a physical explanation doesn't interfere with the more relevant decision theoretic explanation. The same fact can have multiple causes/explanations, in particular multiple causes each of which determines what happens. A sense of conflict between such different explanations that are not mutually exclusive is just a mistaken intuition you should get rid of.