Hi Alberto G. Corona I am a retired scientist, but I totally agree with you about the social depredations that materialistic physics has created.
Apparently in the 17th century Descartes proposed a dualistic metaphysics in which, despite the fact that they are entirely different substances, mind and body could still intereact. Leibniz, on the other hand, said that they could only interact if both were mental. Hence his Idealism, which allows for both mind and God, but which is also very difficult to understand. On the other hand, Cartesian materialism, which simply ignores the problem. Phlilsophers, like Pratt on the internet , justify mixing up mind and matter by claiming that they are just "different perspectives," Or simply ignore the mind/matter problem by dismissing anything spiritual or non-material (especially God) . La Place once said that he had no need of God in his hypotheses when calcualting the motions of the planets Roger Clough, [email protected] 8/24/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so everything could function." ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Alberto G. Corona Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-08-24, 06:20:33 Subject: Re: The bicameral mind I? also very heterodox with respect to?hysics. Although I have a degree in Physics, or just because that, I understand that physics has exerted a reductionist fascination that has ruined every social and human science, including philosophy. Now it has been substituted by information theory, computer science and biology, which are more appropriate to the understanding of ultimate existential questions, but the danger still exist. there are still too much physics envy in human sicences and the biologist-computationalist reductions may or may be not equally dangerous. Almost all the human sciences are nothing more that religious sects that try to explain every human aspect as a result of a single entity that creates meaning: the notion of "culture" ?ormerly "class" or "race" before Hitler for example. This is noting but crap. Philosophy has followed this nonsense until it annihilated itself. 2012/8/23 Stephen P. King <[email protected]> Dear Alberto, ?? I agree with you 100%. I have trouble classifying myself. I am not conservative with regard to the current orthodoxy in physics and yet am conservative when it comes to philosophical ideas in the sense of rejecting relativism and deconstructivism. Post-modern progressives seem to be anti-progressive in their actions and so I think of them as just naive or worse. On 8/23/2012 1:47 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Roger, I tend to believe what you say. But, in an effort to be objective, ? belive that emotionality is the trait that apeear in a culture when it is dominant and mostly unchallenged. Now the progressive culture is dominant, so the lazy-thinking people go to the progressive culture, but this neither is the root nor defines the progressive culture. At least I don? think that people Mill or Rawls are emotional. They may be very coold. However there is something demagogic and self-indulgent in every progressive ideology, this makes more lazy.thinking people in its side. Both groups have two different ideas of what reality is, and two different ideas of human nature. Progressives may be or may not be very rational, but they start with different beliefs, so that ?ven with equal goals, the consequences for action are completely different than in the case of conservatives. ?? conservative, this is evident, this is a disclaimer, but if I as conservative and more or less rational were persuaded that the social reality is not a consequence of human nature, but the result of an external ideological repression which make very difficult a possible unlimited human and material progress , if I were persuaded that all men have not inside the seeds for evil, so that the evil could be?radicated?y political measures, then i would be progressive with the same rationality, and with the same goals of doing the best for the whole society. For this reason, it is necessary to gain a scientific knowledge of human nature, I believe that evolutionary theory brings so. the gofod news for me is that the picture that emerges from it is conservative. The bad news is that the progressives feels themselves challenged in their beliefs and they will not accept it easily. 2012/8/21 Roger Clough <[email protected]> Hi Alberto G. Corona ? I suppose I opened a can of worms; I really don't want to get into a political argument, because never the twain shall meet. They speak completely different languages. Two completely different views, two different tribes always at war with one another. ? Because of the bicameral mind metaphor (Jaynes and others): ? ? Left brain metaphor (top or intellectual portion of monad humunculus) Conscious, thinking, discreteness,?equential, control, logic, yang, male, ego, insistent, sun ? Right brain metaphor (feeling or middle portyion of monad humunculus)? Subconscious, Feeling, global, nonlinear thinking, submission, aesthetics, yin, female, noninsistent, moon? ? Two different tribes, the ought or moral coming from the right hand brain metaphor, the "is" coming from the left hand brain metaphor. The bicameral mind ? Let me just state my basis for the assignments. I think Lakoff wrote a book not long ago on the subject of words and politics. ? Liberal (ought) arguments?re usually morally based (we can't let the poor starve so we need to tax the greedy rich)? while conservatives try to reply using the "is" weapons of?acts and logic (we can't afford that stuff, we're going bankrupt). ? ? Roger Clough, [email protected] 8/21/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so everything could function." -- Onward! Stephen "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed." ~ Francis Bacon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. 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