Can natural science provide an ethics?

[warpus]

Actually, that book I mentioned earlier (the quantum brain) seemed to imply that our brain has many layers - and each layer looks downwards to the layer below it. and that essentially what happens is that there is so much "looking at yourself" that you gain consciousness.

I haven't read it in many years though - and then I forgot it on a greyhound bus. So I could be mischaracterizing the author's hypothesis.

 

[Kozmos]

Causality is totally dependent on frame of reference.

Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends on your frame of reference.
Albert Einstein


That sort of thing eh?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends on your frame of reference.
Albert Einstein


That sort of thing eh?

Sort of.

Take a penny and put it on your desk. Take a dime and put it on your desk so that it touches the penny. Now take a quarter and shoot it across your desk so that it hits the dime.

Why did the penny move?


Do not open until the experiment has been completed.

Spoiler :

The penny moved because I told you to put it on your desk.

 

[Borachio]

Nope. That experiment failed. I didn't budge from my chair. Or put anything on anything else.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Nope. That experiment failed. I didn't budge from my chair. Or put anything on anything else.

So, the penny didn't move because you.

Consider that the experiment worked fine.