Hi Ian, On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:35 AM, Ian Glendinning <[email protected]> wrote: > Steve, > Much earlier in this debate dmb and Steve were looking at recent Sam > Harris position on free-will ... > > DMB said, > "[The] neurological determinism of [Sam Harris] is new to me and I > think it's just awful. Patricia Churchland, of all people, has > criticized him for crude reductionism. She was harsh. And they're > pretty good friends! She says she wishes he had waited a couple years > to write that book." > > I agree with that. I'm a big fan of Sam Harris too, but his recent > stuff he was touting round the speaking circuit based on his latest > book was ill informed on the brain-science aspects, where he is no > expert. His reductionism was too "greedy" to coin a Dennett term.
Steve: Harris actually has a phD in neuroscience, so he actually is an "expert" when it comes to brain science. What position(s) does he hold that he regard as greedy reductionism? dmb: > But again, I still can't see what you and dmb are actually disagreeing > about when it comes to free-will. Steve: Really? Or is it that you can't see how dmb could still possibly be disagreeing? Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
