From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Thu Jun 02 2005 - 15:18:48 BST
Hi Ham,
You quoted from the Damasio article the following:
> I also suggest
> that those internal states-which occur naturally along the range whose
> poles are pain and pleasure, and are caused by either internal or external
> objects and events-become unwitting nonviable signifiers of the goodness or
> badness of situations relative to the organism's inherent set of values.
Note the phrase, an "organism's inherent set of values." Now where do you
suppose he got the idea that values are "inherent?" What genes carry
values? And if there are such things as value genes, how did those values
originate?
Seems that Damasio has inadvertently given credence to the MOQ which
claims we live primarily not in world of subjects and objects, but of
values.
Best,
Platt
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