Maybe it's because I'm coming from a computer science background, but I'm thinking of computation as much more basic than that. Whether you're elaborating myths or reacting to the sight of a snake, your brain is performing calculations.
I think we agree that our values are deeply ingrained, although it's much more difficult to say exactly to what level(s). I do not agree that our values are selected through memetic adaptation, or at least that's only part of the story.
I would be grateful if you can indulge my argument a bit further.
Maybe it's because I'm coming from a computer science background, but I'm thinking of computation as much more basic than that.
I think I clumsily gave the impression that I deny such computation. I was referring to computations that generate value presuppositions. Of course the brain is computing in multiple levels, whether we are conscious of it or not. In addition there seems to be evidence, of what may be called, an emergent proto-morality in animals that, if true, is completely biolog...
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