The Hunting Story of Pinocchio

I've become very interested in the emergence of ethics from the biological substrate and one of the things that happened when I was discussing the relationship between facts and values with Sam Harris like Harris has gotten an interesting problem to solve. If you act ethically maybe that's associated with the amelioration of suffering and if you can ground that in something solid then we can come to agreement about how we should all act to ameliorate suffering goodYou know that all seems reasonable but the grounding of value in fact is very very difficult You don't get from the array of facts to the world of values without very complex intermediary stages so what I've been trying to puzzle out is what those intermediary stages