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Ask Me Anything | April 2023

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

CHAPTER

The Relationship Between Normal Ethics and Meta-Ethics

The Boltzmann-Brain scenario is thermal fluctuations in an eternally existing physical configuration. We don't know what the simulators can do, or what they're interested in doing. The idea of skeptical scenarios has a very long philosophical pedigree. I'm not a Kantian constructivist, I'm a human constructivist. Constructivists think that morality or moral rules are not just located out there in the world, they are constructed by us humans.

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