--- In [email protected], "authfriend" wrote:
>
> 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."
> 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.
Yes, Nagel's book is already on my to-read list as I've been amused by
the way atheist philosophers and neo-Darwinian scientists have closed
ranks to denounce his heresy. It's curious that so many people have a
strong emotional attachment to whatever the current orthodoxy is. My
vice is the exact opposite - I only enjoy reading people who shake the
foundations - whether they are right or wrong I find that approach is
invariably more entertaining. (Of course one has to draw the line
somewhere: I need my heretics to make a good case and not simply spout
wild theories like David Icke, for example.)
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