Note that what you describe as science doesn't seem to include the study of processes, including processes underlying human consciousness. Study of pr...
I'm not well suited for presenting such an argument. For me it seems like it would requiring writing a book that I would never get finished with. Fort...
Just saw Sydney New Year's Day fireworks while watching the news, and got to wondering about Australian time zones. UTC+8:45, WTF? https://c.tadst.com...
1. I'm not arguing against figurative interpretations existing since ancient times, as I already explained to Hanover. I'm simply pointing out that th...
Well, there is an issue of whether I would have remembered to reply, which I'd guess I likely wouldn't have if @"Vera Mont" hadn't subsequently replie...
Yeah, forget bats. It's challenge enough to understand what it is like to be other people. The movie Temple Grandin makes an attempt to convey Temple ...
Not having a linguistic monolog going on in consciousness is not the same as not having a stream of consciousness. In fact, from my perspective it wou...
Sure. There are many ways that humanity has culturally come up with, to deal with our innate tendedncies in a more prosocial way. Religions provide so...
I haven't read Sapolsky's book, so I can only speculate on the case he makes. However, I'd say that we judge because evolution endowed us with instinc...
One point is suggested by this excerpt from the Amazon blurb on Sapolsky's Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will: It's not simple to change ...
Suppose it occurred to you, that you could look into answers to your questions rather than just remain ignorant of the answers? Suppose you were equal...
I've seen more than enough evidence of your cherry-picking scientific views for their consistency with the beliefs you prefer to have. It's a common c...
Nagel has failed to recognize the poor thinking in things like Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism and Intelligent Design. So your ap...
Oh yeah. I'd estimate my record at something like 15 and 3. (With one of my failures being dismissing my intuition that I was observing sock puppetry....
Even if we accept the impossibility of recognition of the value of the law of the excluded middle as a result of biological evolution, despite you sim...
Agreed, I was thinking as I wrote that previous post, that if the discussion were to get serious, I'd have to do a fair bit of clarification. For exam...
Not to speak for @"Philosophim", but I treat it as a working hypothesis, and wonder whether you can present any falsifying evidence (while not expecti...
"Commandment" can be an awfully semantically loaded word, if what you mean is something more along the lines of "something likely to be beneficial for...
No, I mean the sort of physical identity that is of relevance here would be something like, "Having all of a person's the electrons, protons, and neut...
The following excerpt from a Robert Cialdini book seems relevant, both to your observation and to various threads going on about morality, and discuss...
I supposed it is a matter of surprising coincidences. The last time I saw a post from @"Srap Tasmaner" was a short while before the first post I saw f...
What does Greene follow that up with? I don't get the impression, based on the following Greene interview, that he would agree much with the way you a...
Well of course societies have continually evolved, and the form literalist Christianity has taken has varied. Are you sure there is anyone here making...
I've never heard anyone say that, who wasn't rather naive about what is going on in the physical sciences. See the link I posted above. It is certainl...
I see growing scientific evidence, that learning more about phase relationships between brainwaves and neuron firings will enhance our understanding o...
Ah son, I've been involved in so many discussions with Christians like you, that I'm pretty unimpressed with threats to take your ball and go. Do what...
Sure, there have always been some intellectuals who attained figurative views. However consider this Augustine quote: This quote doesn't make much sen...
The fact is, you have to settle for an approximation. Even if you were to get NIST to provide you with a measurement of your height, NIST would qualif...
I'd say some of both. Assuming it is even possible to record the full detail of the physical activity occurring in human brains without killing a pers...
The lack of a halo above the pretzel is disturbing: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Auntie_Anne%27s_food_truck_in_Rehoboth_B...
Meaning and value are things naturally evolved minds project on things in the environment, since survival and reproduction is fostered by seeing thing...
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