Complex Life and Moral Instincts

in #happiness6 months ago (edited)


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I believe that life being a great organism following thermodynamics in increasing locally on earth entropy as the rest of the universe is doing, it must be preserved, so therefore from saying life must be preserved, it's all a balance like in Utilitarianism but not looking for " happiness " as it is a nothing more than an illusion, but more looking at consequences to see which act will keep best natural states dictated by physics going.

With such a basic statement you'll assume with our medical rational knowledge that hate, killing, can be consider in this moral system " wrong " as they do not let physics continue to increase entropy throughout life because of an illusion of free will and emotion.

And I get all emotions etc really "seem " important, but if you look at the majority of complex life, natural instincts emotionally are not about hate and ending other lives but more making choices so that higher lifeforms evolves ( can be linked to increasing entropy too ), and you see more love toward life factually : - hate literally is unhealthy and it is the same for almost all emotions labelled " negative " so maybe that label isn't just a social construct but emerges from our inherent properties as complex organisms.
But I think and I get that from a fully deterministic view, we can say that if one hates and commits any act, it was going to happen anyway when the universe started, and thats a big problem to do anything so lets suppose we embrace the illusion and when we make a choice it is " supposedly " from a will to keep life even if it is just an illusion of free.

Idk if we can really do that but I don't see any other way to even be talking about anything or doing anything if you just says that even at our complex chaotic scale it was all made to go one direction. I might need to get more into arguments against full determinism but I don't know much for now thats why I'd like to talk about all that yapping I normally do alone in my head.

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