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Strato # 49   The great UAW leader Shawn Fain is old school   I don’t know much about Mr. Fain, but from what I’ve seen I think he trying to revive the spirit of the brothers Reuther.  I was a member […]

Michael 100 at #51:    I know that software can and does exist independently of hardware.   Come again? The best I can do to interpret that is to understand the ability to upload/download software onto other ha […]

Sorry, Lee. #50 this is how cognitive science in general views these things.  Not since the middle of the twentieth century. Software required repositioned hardware, See Hebbian learning. “Cells that fire […]

I am new to this community, and look forward to reading plenty of new and divergent ideas. I have enjoyed Richard Dawkins’ ideas for years, and align with his thoughts on religion. I am writing today to get the v […]

Lee Christensen # 50.  I know that software can and does exist independently of hardware.  Mind, however, does not exist independently of the brain.  Would you speak of the lung/body distinction?

Michael 100 at 32: I think is error to hold on to the mind/body distinction.  I’d be interested in what others think of this point. I don’t think the mind/body distinction is any more indefensible than th […]

I don’t mean to dominate discussions, but on religion today, well I needed a bit of a reminder myself. Marco has had to once or twice. The great UAW leader Shawn Fain is old school, like Eugene Debs. Their […]

philrimmer #45, I simply don’t understand the problem of “free will” being nonsensical. Why should I want to choose whimsically when I can choose rationally, given cultural thinking tools and the latest evide […]

We now understand that the toothless old lady living with her black cat in the hovel at the edge of the hamlet didn’t actually cause the lightning bolt to carbonise the ergot-riddled granary.   This happy […]

phil #39 i do indeed remember that video of raoul of course it was sam harris who kick started my waking up with his short snappy book on the subject though i do keep falling back to sleep sapolsky says he […]

Strat #42 I simply don’t understand the problem of “free will” being nonsensical. Why should I want to choose whimsically when I can choose rationally, given cultural thinking tools and the latest evidence? I […]

I think people know where I’m at. For me, Bernie should have been president. Instead, America got Trump. Gad! Never again! UAW leader Shawn Fain is old school, like Eugene Debs. Bernie has the framed photo of […]

Harris was speaking days after Arizona’s supreme court ruled that a near-total abortion ban law dating back to 1864 could go into effect. Of that law, she said:   “Women here live under one of the most ex […]

philrimmer #39, I take Sapolsky’s case that we really can’t help ourselves. Yet I also think I subscribe to the dictum ‘knowledge is power.’ And Sapolsky is certainly imparting knowledge, the science of how the […]

Offg:  Thanks for that link.  Homo Deus is on my list too.