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Logic From Matter
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| Right? | |
| So, I haven't actually added any truth value. | |
| I've just defined something as being true no matter what. | |
| kind of goal or output, this thing is good. | |
| So I want to figure out how... | |
| There's an element of that that's true. | |
| So, for example, in the story of Job, Job is unfairly tortured. | |
| In consequence of a bet between God and Satan. | |
| So Job is emblematic of someone who's being hurt for no apparent reason. | |
| Okay, so Job's response to that is that he refuses to lose faith in himself. | |
| I've watched so much Kevin Samuel that I'm like, what kind of wig is she wearing? | |
| Refuses to lose faith in the ultimate goodness of being. | |
| Okay. | |
| And those are like, those are axiomatic decisions. | |
| They're not exactly evident. | |
| So I'm essentially trying to figure out, do you believe that something can be good, like stance independently, something that can be good? | |
| I don't know what you mean by stance independent. | |
| You mean independent of people? | |
| Independent of people. | |
| We can use that, or more so. | |
| I want to be more specific. | |
| Something that can be good. | |
| Yeah, so, I mean, logic exists independent of people insofar as entities in the world are not self-contradictory, right? | |
| I mean, I'm not doing this show while sitting on your lap at the same time. | |
| That's just for donors as a whole, and that's on my OnlyFans page. | |
| But things, objects in the world, right? | |
| This thing that I'm holding is a fork, right? | |
| It's a fork. | |
| It's not a fork and a dragon and a concept and on fire and a gas at the same time, right? | |
| So logic... | |
| Gravity doesn't both attract and repel at the same time. | |
| So, and if I leave this fork here, I come back tomorrow, it's still a fork. | |
| It hasn't turned into a dove, right? | |
| So, the stability and predictability of matter is the basis for the consistency, stability, and predictability of logic, right? | |
| Two and two is four, yesterday, today, tomorrow, everywhere in the universe, and so on, right? | |
| So, the consistent behavior of matter and energy exists prior to humanity defining logic in the abstract. | |
| Logic is imperfectly derived from the consistency of matter and energy. | |
| And by imperfectly, I mean if you have something that you call logic that is self-contradictory or inconsistent across time and space, then it's not logic, right? | |
| Because the behavior of matter and energy is never self-contradictory. | |
| And is consistent across time and space. | |
| So logic is derived from the behavior of matter. | |
| And of course, if matter didn't have that level of stability and predictability and consistency, we never could have evolved to develop our brains, right? | |
| There wouldn't be enough if people just randomly burst into flames, whatever, right? | |
| For no reason then. | |
| All right. | |
| Right, regardless of any end goal. | |
| It's just good. | |
| Yeah, something that is intrinsically good in and of itself without being goal-oriented, right? | |
| Because the problem with making morality, I mean, you guys know, right? | |
| What is the problem with morality being outcome dependent? | |
| Why can something not be moral based upon Jordan Peterson's argument for good or bad outcomes? | |
| What's the problem with consequentialism with regards to morality? | |
| Tell me. | |
| If people are going to have to type now. | |
| I used to tell all these Bible stories to my daughter when she was very little, and we used to have a pretty hilarious retelling of these various stories and so on, right? | |
| So, I worship the consistency of matter and energy. | |
| What we kind of do, in a way, right? | |
| Because if matter and energy were not perfectly consistent, perfectly consistent, perfectly consistent, then we wouldn't be here. | |
| We wouldn't have any foundation to build our brains on. | |