tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post3815289903979884392..comments2024-03-18T15:00:33.365-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: Human natureAlexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-4578246659629709052013-04-20T03:44:30.574-05:002013-04-20T03:44:30.574-05:00Excellent stuff with wonderful information! I'...Excellent stuff with wonderful information! I'm new here and loving the post! Thanks for sharing this great info!<br /><br /><a href="http://trueexistence.com/" rel="nofollow">true existence</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-64753741047052405222011-12-30T14:43:07.880-06:002011-12-30T14:43:07.880-06:00Would such surgery be dubious if carried out on on...Would such surgery be dubious if carried out on oneself? In effect we alter our capabilities every day via what we focus on and what we do not. There are trade-offs - if you exercise four hours a day, that is time in which you cannot read. Working alone in your study does not increase your social skills, and so on. Your account does not suggest the inpaired capabilities would be hugely impaired so it is not obviously where the difference lies (other than one is natural and one is not). <br /><br />In addition, humans have a range of capabilities (as implied above). Your intuition appears to be assuming a unitary value of the skills G and H. And given that, normalcy then covers a vast area. It is not clear that there IS a pattern of emphases among pursuits characteristic to humans at anything other than a very high level.Cathybyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11933028707666531424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-38370642200550243912011-12-30T14:20:52.165-06:002011-12-30T14:20:52.165-06:00But now imagine that there were a form of neurosur...<i>But now imagine that there were a form of neurosurgery that greatly increases one's capabilities in respect of G at the cost of one's capabilities in respect of H. It would be clearly wrong to perform this surgery on one's child, and it would be dubious if it were appropriate to have it be performed it on oneself.</i> <br /><br />All sorts of comments about graduate school in philosophy suggest themselves.Heath Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13535886546816778688noreply@blogger.com