Comment on Separate morality from free will

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:15:14 GMT

If something is judged to be beautiful then the pattern that identifies beauty is in the mind of the agent and exhibited by the object that is deemed beautiful. If the agent ceases to be then the beautiful object does still exhibit the same pattern. Likewise if a human loses its ability to proclaim that the object is beautiful, it is still beautiful. If you continued to remove certain brain areas, or one neuron at a time, at what point does beauty cease to exist?

This is a tricky problem. Is morality, like beauty, something that exists in the mind of the beholder? Like aesthetic judgements, it exists relative to a set of values, so probably yes.

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