Consciousness - a deep dive into the politics of brain science with Anil Seth
Politics on the Couch
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Is There a Moral Absolute?
I think the picture I'm outlining allows for moral absolutes. But what it's suggesting is that we might be misled in identifying these moral and ethical absolutes just on the basis of how things seem to us. We need independent reasons for establishing those. And there are independent reasons, at least he thinks so. The fact that we might perceive the world slightly differently does not mean that our perceptions are totally disconnected from reality or that there is no real world. As you said earlier, if you go and stand in front of a bus, it's going to hurt you when it hits you. And it doesn't matter how you perceive it, that's just true,. That's just
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