--- In [email protected], "Seraphita" <s3raphita@...> wrote: (snip) > On the topic of his books, I'm tempted to buy War of the > Worldviews as I enjoy argy-bargy and I respect Chopra for > having the balls to engage in open debate with a full-on > materialist. Anyone read that and would recommend it?
I haven't read it, but I've heard Chopra on videotape on the topic and read some of his articles talking about it. If you're interested in the debate with materialists, you could do a lot better than Chopra. He's not what I would call a rigorous thinker. You might try Thomas Nagel's "Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False." Robin was just entranced by it. Come to think of it, he made a bunch of posts quoting from it at length: 323760 323779 323885 323982 324204 324320 324753 324858 Nagel got in a lot of trouble with the big-time materialists; the book really upset them, so he must have hit close to the bone.
