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>From: michael@psych.toronto.edu (Michael Gemar)
Subject: Re: Strong AI and Panpsychism
Message-ID: <1992Jan31.184933.24782@psych.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
References: <1992Jan31.060007.18124@oracorp.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1992 18:49:33 GMT

In article <1992Jan31.060007.18124@oracorp.com> daryl@oracorp.com writes:
>Michael Gemar writes:
>
>> Ack!  I may be old fashioned, but I refuse to believe that moral
>> judgement is on par with musical taste.  If you *honestly* believe
>> this, then is there any restriction, apart from the problem of
>> punishment, on you killing a person?  If Jeff Dahlmer just someone
>> with (pardon the pun) bad taste?  *I* certainly don't think so...
>
>I did not claim that all subjective properties are "matters of taste".
>Specifically, I gave beauty, justice, and morality as subjective
>properties that are *not* simply matters of taste.

My apologies, as I obviously didn't understand your point.  Could you
clarify it?  I'm not sure how something can be "subjective" and yet not
a "matter of taste", at least given the list of such things you provide
above.


- michael



