Re: Root Of All Evil: The Virus Of Science (Richard Dawkins)
- From: Bruce Stewart <bruce_stewart@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:48:59 GMT
Wizard of Odd wrote:
> Ian McEwan: 'Brief Period Of Consciousness In The Brain' - 'No
> Afterlife'
>
> How can scientific rationalism be so firm in a belief that the brain is
> where consciousness resides yet unable to explain fully the processes
> involved in emotions, genius, meditation, hypnosis, healing or
> mediumship. The brain(hardware) is a complex organic quantum computer,
> if you examine it closely then you will see your
> mind's(self-programming software) processes creating effects in your
> brain.
Gasp!, why are using a computer then, in fact any technology more complex
than a stick? I would probably guess you do not know much about mining,
refining, metalurgy, materials science, etc, so they all must be oogo boogo
then, as you don't know much/anything about these.
What is interesting is how people model the brain/mind, currently because we
have these computer things, we model it like that, before these were
common, other models were used. The problem with using models like that is
that they are *not* the behaviour being modelled and have the problem of
forcing people into thinking that the behaviour can only act like the
model.
>
> Why do we have the following genius forces appearing on our planet at
> the right moment to change mankind's knowledge, direction and
> aspirations within a simple evolutionary model:
>
> Newton, Bach, Mozart, Riemann, Freud, Jung, Einstein, Bob Dylan, The
> Beatles.
Duh, If the circumstances were not correct, then they wouldn't have had the
impact that they had. If Newton had been born earlier some the of the basis
of his theories wouldn't have been found so he wouldn't have been able to
build upon them and he wouldn't been able to rip off Hooke either. If
later, Hooke and Liebenitz would be far more famous than they are now.
>
> Does this not prove that there must be a supreme being who carefully
> coordinates mankind's evolution.
No it doesn't.
>
> Science is blinded by it's gigantic self-inflated ego which only
> perceives a limited range of the whole truth behind our existence. I do
> agree with many of the points Dawkins makes about the various religious
> communities, the only stumbling block is his own scientific
> fundamentalistic views which seem similiar to any fanatical religion.
There is no "Truth" behind our existence, other than the Truth and Meaning
*We* make.
Bruce S.
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