On 5/20/2014 4:07 PM, LizR wrote:
On 21 May 2014 06:24, meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On 5/20/2014 7:28 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:The implications might be the abandon of materialism, which is good, as it is a person eliminativist position. Then the machine's theology provides a vaccine against the reductionist conception of numbers, machines and a fortiori humans. The main general implications is a tool for coming back to seriousness in theology, including the origin of the physical realities. This announces a super-big paradigm shift where the person notion plays a key role.I think you're too much immersed in science. "The person notion" is still the dominant metaphysics in 99% of the world. "Person" is at the center of politics, religion, art, economics,... Science is about the only human endeavor that is not person centered.You think science is only 1% of the world? As someone with a computer and mobile phone and TV and washing machine and so on, I find that science has made quite a large contribution to just about every aspect of my everyday life.
Only 1% of the world views, and specifically as they bear on ethics and morals - which is where Bruno thinks the "person centered" view will be a big paradigm shift.
But of course that isn't what you were thinking of. The "dominant metaphysics" on Earth is religion, which is person centred, especialyl when it comes to saying what people can and can't do. But I'm still not sure it's at 99%, even so.
So maybe I exaggerated a little and it's 4% (the fraction of Americans that self identify as atheists).
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