It doesn't appear he has reflected on the subject he's writing about. If he
did, he would have found the contradictions of what he's saying. IOW, if there
was no evidence of consciousness, then why does he write about the subject?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote:
On Nov 2, 2011, at 10:23 PM, Yifu wrote:
Right, precisely. The words Harris uses such as compassion, awe,
devotion, feelings of oneness, etc... are very similar to those
used by other materialists such as Hawking to explain what they
mean by (the closest entity to): God. Unfortunately,
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote:
Sam Harris on the Mystery of Consciousness I and II from
http://www.samharris.org
Harris distinguishes between underlying consciousness and the things
entities are conscious of, but seems to skirt around making definitive
Right, precisely. The words Harris uses such as compassion, awe, devotion,
feelings of oneness, etc... are very similar to those used by other
materialists such as Hawking to explain what they mean by (the closest entity
to): God. Unfortunately, few of such people venture into Transcendence
