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A Method for Deriving Ethical Truth A summary of The Four Intuitions framework and The Three Conditions The Foundation Ethics is how we know right from wrong. Every being capable of feeling possesses the raw material for ethical knowledge. “I feel, therefore I know ethics” is an axiom of ethical truth. Feeling is both physical and mental. “Feelings” are not an appeal to emotion in the colloquial sense. It is the baseline of sentient experience: the capacity to suffer a

Testing "The Four Intuitions" framework with AI against 19 variants of "The Trolley Problem". The framework works to provide sound ethical reasoning in each instance.

The Value-Positive Frontier of The Four Intuitions Ethical Framework IMPORTANT NOTES: I have been testing Claude's ethical understanding. I have been applying the principles outlined in "Why and Because — The Art and Science of Moral and Ethical Understanding," specifically The Four Intuitions ethical framework, and it has learned them along the way. After testing Claude on taboos, I asked it to test classical philosophy scenarios, and this extends that testing further. This

Four Ultimate Tests of Sheraton’s Ethical Framework Consciousness, Space, Simulation, and the Framework Itself IMPORTANT NOTES: I have been testing Claude's ethical understanding. I have been applying the principles outlined in "Why and Because — The Art and Science of Moral and Ethical Understanding" and it has learned them along the way. This is not the last batch of testing, I have several geo-political situations I've run this framework through and yet to publish, but we

Below is a conversation with ChatGPT The economics of 2,000-years ago, and the economics of 1900’s and the economics of today are very similar. Why is that? Because the fundamentals of economics—scarcity, supply and demand, trade, labor, value, and incentives—haven't changed. While technology, institutions, and financial instruments evolve, the core principles of human economic behavior remain consistent. For example: · Ancient Rome (c. 0-100 AD) had complex trade

I woke up in the middle of the night and decided to have a conversation about ethical understanding with AI... you know, as one does. I was pleasantly surprised with the results. The conversation starts a bit banal, but in a short manner it gets interesting. Chat GPT was the platform used for this conversation. Define morality Morality refers to the principles, standards, or rules that guide individuals or societies in determining what is right and wrong, good and bad, or

The book,"What Went Wrong" by B Lewis details how the Arab world rejected modernity because it thought its culture was superior to all, so it refused to learn from outsiders. Sounds a lot like American Exceptionalism + MAGA Introspection is necessary for growth. With introspection, age brings wisdom; without it one grows dumber with over time. This is true for individuals and true for nations. Collectively our information is increasing while our understanding is decreasing. T

External reality exists and there are facts about the world that we can be certain of. Ethical knowledge (know-how) is innate and ethical understanding transcends time and culture. “I feel therefore I know ethics” is an axiom of ethical knowledge. Ethical understanding (know-why) requires that people ask a basic question, “how would I like it if that was done to me?” This question should be applied with “the veil of ignorance” (the answers should be the same assuming you are

Ethical matters arise between two feeling entities over matters of harm/care and fairness/reciprocity. When discussing abortion, there are a few core items to clarify. 1. What is a person? What traits define personhood? Note this extends beyond the human realm into discussions of AI and animal/alien distinctions of personhood. 2. If and when the sanctity of life trumps other considerations? Discuss should include distinctions between higher and lower live forms (plants to hum

Are all feelings created equal? Let's explore the moral intuitions and confusion relating to disgust. Disgust is an interesting, often involuntary response that is so automatic that it can be hard to find words to describe what you find disgusting or why. The evolutionary explanations for disgust are intuitive as they relative to rotten food, foul odors, etc., somewhat intuitive with some cultural items like piercings or the permissiveness of some sex acts, and less so with