*Reminds You Of Your Mortality*

Nah, even hardcore Hitchens fans like Cosmic Skeptic admit he relies more on charisma and wit than sound arguments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fopo9E7UAVQ

It's true Hitch doesn't answer well on morality, but just as there has been massive push back against evolution because it makes people think less of the human creature, the same applies to morality. There are cries of "reductionism" and a defense of what is noble or divine in the human, and comparisons to lesser primates or to utility as a mode of morality rankle people who view it as losing something precious. The truth is, this impulse comes from a human inability to fully comprehend complexity. It's why reductionism is useful to begin with, since we cannot comprehend a thing's full complexity, we break it down to pieces and examine them in simpler forms, then piece it back together to get a better understanding of the whole. When it comes to evolution, many people are simply incredulous that little biological bits of acid code could come together and construct a being that creates the world's most beautiful art work. The same applies to morality. Every biological entity has impulses based on desire of one sort or another. And when these impulses come into interaction with other people, some mechanism of navigation is required. Thus, all of morality rests on utility to the fulfillment of desires. If you find this unsatisfying, in other words, if you desire a better explanation, you simply prove the point. But here we come to the crucial point, within this navigation between people pursuing their own desires arises massive degrees of complexity, both on the biological side as well as the cultural side leading to concepts such as human solidarity, nobility, dignity, compassion, empathy, respect and so forth. The fact that these boil down to a kind of self interested utility does not remove those precious and valuable other things, because the fact that you yearn for that kind of transcendence and feel sorely imperiled by any explanation which threatens them is an indication that those things come baked in and arise through the compounding complexity of our biological and social systems. Also, it is useful to rule out the absurd in order to closer approximate the truth. If there is an objective code, is it in line with maximizing our fulfillment as content humans over the span of our life, or are we to sacrifice parts of our lives solely to the symbolic "objective moral standard"? Here we begin to see the superstitions of our forebearers, who were willing to sacrifice their children in the hopes that it would keep the gods happy. It is time to recognize the only standard which really matters is happiness, a circumspect view to constructing the "good life", and any sacrifice must have a requisite confidence that it will bring higher rewards as a result. Once again, part of this circumspect view is to build communities, your neighbors happiness and well being influence your own in complex ways you may well be incapable of fully appreciating. Thus, we lose nothing by humbly recognize this bedrock of morality.

Fair enough, stream of consciousness, it was typed out for my own benefit more than any other anon's

I intend to improve the format of my previous post while retaining it's substance in future, I think I will embrace effortposting more and even tack headlong into the winds of mockery and embrace the jeers of "reddit spacing" next time.

I forgot this is part of a larger group of christgay contentions claiming that you‘re super mad because you identified their bullshit.

explain out-of-body experiences then. the US government did decades of studies into remote-viewing and scientifically proved that these people were able to get out of their bodies and were able to spiritually visit another place (thus being alive while not in their bodies).
you're moronic if you think we know everything there is to know concerning consciousness and the existence of a soul. even most cognitive scientists don't agree with that.

nta, but we don't really know for sure what nature has in store. I would like to think its as simple as brain dead, no more for forever, but there are always unknowns. Think of the weird shit we have just a slight hint of like recurrence theories or quantum immortality, now imagine all of the aspects of existence we don't understand. I'll always have to remain agnostic on the question but I'd like very much no awareness whatsoever.

>There is zero cognition or awareness without brain.
Your body can respond to a stimulus without cognition and with more speed than it takes to become aware of the stimulus.