Here are a few ideas that might well constitute the essential substance of my philosophical learning:
Assumptions:
I.
The currently valid paradigm of neuronal research seems to support the fact that the human brain rewards “good acts”. The “evil conscience” you often experience after an “evil deed” that will then trouble and torture you, on the other hand, is not originally caused by the brain. Instead, it has been “practiced” through socialization.
II.
A “moralising person” will think in the categories “good and evil”. An “amoral person” (= a free person) will think in the categories “right and wrong”. He knows that there is no absolute truth and that fear, like many other things, is a mere mind game. If asked about the opposite of “good”, he will reply “bad”, instead of “evil”.
III.
Our subconscious dominates our consciousness (i.e. ratio). It has both the power and the speed to determine our decisions and our lives. The assumption we had for perhaps thousand years that this happens through our ratio (consciousness) is wrong.
IV.
Consequently, there is no explicit free will. Our ratio plays a trick with us, trying to tell us a lie. If there is such a thing as human free will, then it takes place in the subconscious. This is how the consciousness follows the subconscious.
V.
We have to kiss the idea that we can freely and consciously decide to “do good” good-bye. Thus, you cannot justify punishment with “amoral behaviour”. Punishment due to “culpability” is nonsense. It might be possible that, following this insight, punishment will be justified because we want to avoid “activities detrimental to all”.
End of my “philosophical discourse”.
More comments:
My utopia is a society that is free of punishment as a matter of principle. Naturally, it would have the right to fight detrimental activities.
Moreover, the wonder-world of animals, be it mammals (including humans), insects, fish,… clearly shows the enormous potential of the sub-conscious.
The part of our brains responsible for our ratio, our conscious activities and our “thinking process” would have to develop considerably in order to compete with our subconscious.
But then, who is to know if this is ever going to happen and how the evolution will change humans? Or perhaps the species homo sapiens sapiens will soon die out, anyway?
RMD
(Translated by EG)
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