Bruno Marchal wrote:
...
>> Moreover, I don't have to justify it in terms of other
>> ethical principles or commandments from God:
>
>
> With (a)comp, you have to NOT justify it in terms of God. With comp
> (and God = +/- Plotinus'one) we could justify that any *action* made in
> the name of God is bad, even saving the planet from some attack by
> horrible monster ...
That seems to be a reductio against comp.
> Witrh comp (and the "ideal" case of self-referentially correct machine)
> it is just impossible for a machine to do something good and at the
> same time telling she is doing something good ... (similar paradoxes
> are illustrate in taoist and buddhist tales).
So one cannot be reflective about one's actions and conclude they are good? That sounds like nonsense.
Brent Meeker
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Received on Mon Dec 18 2006 - 14:04:31 PST