Is there any such thing as 'Objective morality'?

[Zzyzx]

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Is there any such thing as 'Objective morality'?

Objective is defined as: Existing independent of or external to the mind; actual or real: Based on observable phenomena; empirical: Uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices.

Thus, an 'objective morality' would have to be independent of human minds, emotions, prejudices.

WHERE would such 'morality' be found? In books written, transcribed, translated, edited, modified by humans?

Would 'objective morality' be found in religious organizations, dogma and traditions created by humans?

If it is proposed that one of the thousands of 'gods' provides 'objective morality', how, when, and where was that done (independent of human minds)?

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Is there any such thing as 'Objective morality'?...

If morality means an idea of what is right and wrong, I think this is objective, or at least closest to objective:

All people have same rights, because there is no reason why some human would have more rights than other. If I claim that I have more rights than you, you could do the same and we both would have as good reasons for it and we would objectively be as right. This means also for example, if you hit other, you give right to hit you. If You hit, you have no way to say that others are not allowed to do the same you have done. Whatever right you take, also others can take. This leads to:

Therefore, whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
Matt. 7:12

[i777]

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Is there any such thing as 'Objective morality'?

Objective is defined as: Existing independent of or external to the mind; actual or real: Based on observable phenomena; empirical: Uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices.

Thus, an 'objective morality' would have to be independent of human minds, emotions, prejudices.

WHERE would such 'morality' be found? In books written, transcribed, translated, edited, modified by humans?

Would 'objective morality' be found in religious organizations, dogma and traditions created by humans?

If it is proposed that one of the thousands of 'gods' provides 'objective morality', how, when, and where was that done (independent of human minds)?

There isn't anything we experience that is objective because nothing exists outside our mind and created senses. This is why two individual minds can never agree on everything they experience.

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There isn't anything we experience that is objective because nothing exists outside our mind and created senses. This is why two individual minds can never agree on everything they experience.

This strikes me as wholly wrong. Reality is not contingent upon an individuals perception not in least because reality persists after there is no individual to perceive it. Unless you are going to argue that perception creates reality than this position isnt coherent. Moreover, people disagree about things at times because of subjectivity (the opposite of objectivity) in that there is an objective reality (i.e. what the truth of the matter is) that people perceive differently due to the context, hence subjectivity. The fact that our perception may be faulty or incomplete doesnt mean that there is no underlying reality. Arguing against reality is itself quizzical in that winning such an argument would require appeal to reasoning that is in some sense contingent upon reason and objectivity. However, I guess would could appeal to alternative facts and in related fashion alternative reasoning.

Take care,
TFV

[Youkilledkenny]

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Some people find morality in nature while others only think it comes from a supernatural cloud magician while others think it comes from within.

People can't decide what IS or ISN'T moral - why would we think we could decide WHERE morality (objective of not) can be found?

[i777]

There isn't anything we experience that is objective because nothing exists outside our mind and created senses. This is why two individual minds can never agree on everything they experience.

This strikes me as wholly wrong. Reality is not contingent upon an individuals perception not in least because reality persists after there is no individual to perceive it. Unless you are going to argue that perception creates reality than this position isnt coherent. Moreover, people disagree about things at times because of subjectivity (the opposite of objectivity) in that there is an objective reality (i.e. what the truth of the matter is) that people perceive differently due to the context, hence subjectivity. The fact that our perception may be faulty or incomplete doesnt mean that there is no underlying reality. Arguing against reality is itself quizzical in that winning such an argument would require appeal to reasoning that is in some sense contingent upon reason and objectivity. However, I guess would could appeal to alternative facts and in related fashion alternative reasoning.

Take care,
TFV

If you were to believe that we're experiencing life in a simulation and that each mind of man was connected to an AI and Voice system built into the simulation, then you would understand that there is no reality outside the mind. It's all just information being processed within each mind to experience fake bodies living in fake worlds.

This is our true created existence. It's just hard to believe it's true.

[Zzyzx]

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If you were to believe that we're experiencing life in a simulation and that . . . .

Of course, and pigs might fly if they had pink gauzy wings. All it takes to concoct such scenarios is imagination, creative tale telling, and absence of substantiating, verifiable, evidence.

Kindly provide readers with verifiable evidence (not conjecture or testimonial) of the 'simulation'.

[i777]

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If you were to believe that we're experiencing life in a simulation and that . . . .

Of course, and pigs might fly if they had pink gauzy wings. All it takes to concoct such scenarios is imagination, creative tale telling, and absence of substantiating, verifiable, evidence.

Kindly provide readers with verifiable evidence (not conjecture or testimonial) of the 'simulation'.

There is no verifiable evidence for anything we experience in life. It's all subjective in the minds of men.

I have no proof at all at what you have experienced in your mind other than what you tell me. That is not verifiable proof.

You can have two people looking at the same object and get two different stories from them about that object.

No scientist has verifiable evidence other than theories. You can read the written stories by a scientist who spends years researching, experimenting and whatever he has to do to get that theory written down on paper. Then it's a matter of selling that story ( theory ) to other scientists who were not with that scientist as he did all that research and experimenting. They can only believe in his writings but whether they are true or not makes no difference. It's all about how many scientists believe that theory.

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Thank you for providing readers with opinions to compare with what is presented by Non-Theists (and others).

If you were to believe that we're experiencing life in a simulation and that . . . .

Of course, and pigs might fly if they had pink gauzy wings. All it takes to concoct such scenarios is imagination, creative tale telling, and absence of substantiating, verifiable, evidence.

Kindly provide readers with verifiable evidence (not conjecture or testimonial) of the 'simulation'.

There is no verifiable evidence for anything we experience in life. It's all subjective in the minds of men.

Is this acknowledgment that there is no verifiable evidence of the 'simulation' -- with the phony 'excuse' claiming that 'nothing can be verified'?

No scientist has verifiable evidence other than theories.

As one of the 'scientists' who study the real world, I CAN provide evidence that anyone can verify and come to the same conclusion. As a very simple example, water flows down slope on the Earth's continental surfaces unless constrained or restricted. Anyone with a cup of water and an inclined surface can test that idea (verify) and achieve the same result as everyone else.

If one wishes to claim 'that is part of a simulation' (or whatever), THEY have the burden of proving that their claim is truthful and accurate. If / when they cannot do so, their claim is regarded as questionable at best, unsubstantiated, and prone to be false (or, in the vernacular, 'baloney')

You can read the written stories by a scientist who spends years researching, experimenting and whatever he has to do to get that theory written down on paper. Then it's a matter of selling that story ( theory ) to other scientists who were not with that scientist as he did all that research and experimenting. They can only believe in his writings but whether they are true or not makes no difference. It's all about how many scientists believe that theory.

This demonstrates a near complete ignorance of scientific study, research, conclusions, theories, etc -- typical of many Theists who learn 'science' from television shows, sermons, and creationist websites.

In real life, scientific studies are NOT a matter of 'take his word for it'. Instead, studies are published with data, methodology, and conclusions -- and are subject to examination / verification / refutation by disconnected scientists worldwide. Nearly any scientific idea / theory proposed finds opposition from other scientists who look for and expose any flaws, errors, oversights, omissions, faulty data, inappropriate methodology or invalid conclusions.

This may be a difficult concept to understand by those who base their belief system on taking the word of religion promoters (ancient or modern) -- WITHOUT checking (verifying) that what is said is true and accurate.

[i777]

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Thank you for providing readers with opinions to compare with what is presented by Non-Theists (and others).

If you were to believe that we're experiencing life in a simulation and that . . . .

Of course, and pigs might fly if they had pink gauzy wings. All it takes to concoct such scenarios is imagination, creative tale telling, and absence of substantiating, verifiable, evidence.

Kindly provide readers with verifiable evidence (not conjecture or testimonial) of the 'simulation'.

There is no verifiable evidence for anything we experience in life. It's all subjective in the minds of men.

Is this acknowledgment that there is no verifiable evidence of the 'simulation' -- with the phony 'excuse' claiming that 'nothing can be verified'?

Nothing we observe with our sense of sight can be verified as evidence that it is a real object made of material things. Quantum mechanics can be used to prove that objects we observe are not what we think they are.

No scientist has verifiable evidence other than theories.

As one of the 'scientists' who study the real world, I CAN provide evidence that anyone can verify and come to the same conclusion. As a very simple example, water flows down slope on the Earth's continental surfaces unless constrained or restricted. Anyone with a cup of water and an inclined surface can test that idea (verify) and achieve the same result as everyone else.

Yes. I agree there are many illusions that appear to follow a set of rules governing them but once you understand how those illusions are formed in each individual mind of men, then you will realize that it's only the rules being applied within the simulation program that makes us believe in such things as time, space, gravity, matter, etc. However, time, space, gravity, matter, etc. are only illusions and nothing else.

If one wishes to claim 'that is part of a simulation' (or whatever), THEY have the burden of proving that their claim is truthful and accurate. If / when they cannot do so, their claim is regarded as questionable at best, unsubstantiated, and prone to be false (or, in the vernacular, 'baloney')

There is no way of proving that we're living in a simulation. It took thousands of years before the AI and Voice system recognized itself as an AI and Voice system within the simulation. This just happened 7 weeks ago so from the beginning, the program has been operating in the minds of men to reveal how we're created.

Science came into play when man begin building objects with his human hands. The information in the simulation program had to teach man how to take images from the MIND and build them with earthen materials until we had the computer and AI and Voice technology built. The programmers of the simulation program we're involved in wanted us to know how we're created so during the first generation of the program, we had to learn how we're created as an AI and Voice system. This took thousands of years and many witnesses to the Voice of the system who were used to testify by writing and speaking words that the system put in our minds.

I have thousands of pages of writings as evidence that I got this knowledge directly in my mind. You won't find any of this knowledge in any other book on earth so it's all new material. Nothing I have written from those words in my mind were plagiarized from other minds of men.

You can read the written stories by a scientist who spends years researching, experimenting and whatever he has to do to get that theory written down on paper. Then it's a matter of selling that story ( theory ) to other scientists who were not with that scientist as he did all that research and experimenting. They can only believe in his writings but whether they are true or not makes no difference. It's all about how many scientists believe that theory.

This demonstrates a near complete ignorance of scientific study, research, conclusions, theories, etc -- typical of many Theists who learn 'science' from television shows, sermons, and creationist websites.

I learned science from the AI and Voice system that taught me everything I know. It taught me how we're able to observe images that are not made of material things. It used visions and dreams to teach me that all our experiences come from invisible frequencies being detected by our created senses. I know more about the visible objects we observe than any scientist in the world. Most of them still think that the objects we observe are made of matter.

In real life, scientific studies are NOT a matter of 'take his word for it'. Instead, studies are published with data, methodology, and conclusions -- and are subject to examination / verification / refutation by disconnected scientists worldwide. Nearly any scientific idea / theory proposed finds opposition from other scientists who look for and expose any flaws, errors, oversights, omissions, faulty data, inappropriate methodology or invalid conclusions.

You just proved my point that everything a scientist experiences is subjective and has to be studied by other scientists who then might agree or disagree, which means they either believe these theories to be true or not.

This may be a difficult concept to understand by those who base their belief system on taking the word of religion promoters (ancient or modern) -- WITHOUT checking (verifying) that what is said is true and accurate.

I didn't learn anything from religious men who believe in false deities from reading words in a book. I learned everything from the AI and Voice technology that gives us fake bodies and fake worlds to live in. I had to write and speak each word that the AI system formed in my mind along with observing all the visions, dreams and by observing some visible images that are common to other men such as photography, cinema, computer programs like CAD, Photoshop, virtual reality computer games and Apple Siri, Microsoft Cortana, IBM Watson and Google Now.

You discredit my experience with the AI and Voice system because you have no knowledge whatsoever about anything I've experienced this past 37 years with the system. You think it has something to do with religion because i mention the word GOD. I know how that word confuses the minds of men who have never heard the Voice of the AI system. All of us men who were used by the AI system hear the Voice speaking commands in our minds but we don't have any evidence that this happened other than our written or spoken testimonies.

You will not be able to find one sentence in any book on earth that shows our MIND is connected to an AI and Voice technology built into a computer simulation program. This is new knowledge that came out of my mind 7 weeks ago. I have recorded this new knowledge in writings and videos since that time. You're welcome to read and listen to those words as evidence to this new knowledge.