Hmm, you present a convincing case, but the result seems to me to be a paradox.
On the one hand, we can't ask about ultimate values or ultimate criteria or whatever in an unconditioned 'one place' way; we always need to assume some set of criteria or values in order to productively frame the question.
On the other hand, if we end up saying that human beings can't ever sensibly ask questions about ultimate criteria or values, then we've gone off the rails.
I don't quite know what to say about that.
On the other hand, if we end up saying that human beings can't ever sensibly ask questions about ultimate criteria or values, then we've gone off the rails.
I'm not saying you can't ever ask questions about ultimate values, just that there isn't some objective moral code wired into the fabric of the universe that would apply to all possible mind-designs. Any moral code we come up with, we have to do so with our own brains, and that's okay. We're also going to judge it with our own brains, since that's where our moral intuitions live.
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