http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/philosophy/thomas-nagel-mind-and-cosmos-review-leiter-nation
Might be of interest to anyone needing to know we are still scientifically clueless on consciousness. On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 6:25:45 AM UTC, archytas wrote: > > I hope we have some intelligent purpose, though we may believe this for > purposes of comfort. I expect Allan and I have been in a few holes with > little more than belief left, but this is not the same as modernity driven > by superiority and misplaced certainty in our models. > > On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 5:04:07 AM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote: >> >> Beliefs arevwhat allows one to maintain focus and direction especially in >> modernization. >> >> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين >> Évitez; assassiner, le viol et l'esclavage des autres >> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: archytas <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 5:35 AM >> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: God >> >> Even the notion of creation is problematic. Big bang seems an incident >> in a much longer history. Belief does not help when one is underestimating >> complexity, as in many big modernisation programmes. >> >> On Tuesday, 27 January 2015 23:10:10 UTC, RP Singh wrote: >>> >>> The best a man can do is to talk about his beliefs but people who have a >>> closed mind think that it is shoving down their throats , a very negative >>> attitude indeed. A person has to learn , unlearn and then relearn and I >>> don't think that a person with a negative attitude can do any of these. >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 8:51 PM, 'facilitator' via "Minds Eye" < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Only a fool would shove their beliefs down someone's throat, better to >>>> cram it into their ears !' (™) >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> --- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> ""Minds Eye"" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
