When the young people inherit the world, they can start getting tough with misuse and abuse but first they should take the time to learn how it works.
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Koch might wish to consider William James’s neglected theory of consciousness: the brain does not create the mind; it focuses it.
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Without a subhuman, the human mind has no history. That is a serious blow to any Darwinian materialist project.
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Driving, as such, did not offer protection from the dread dementia; needing to constantly map place coordinates quickly in real time seems to enlarge the hippocampus.
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At one time, it was the less well-informed people who trusted science less. But repeated episodes like the Covid Crazy will mean that the better informed people will trust less.
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Siegel’s essay at Big Think can have one very desirable result: It is a good, though unwitting, summary of attitudes that must change if public trust in science is to be improved.
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For many media people, the revelations from Fauci’s papers are just something that needs explaining away. That is pretty much what they will continue to try to do.
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Art cannot have helped make us more human if we did not start out that way. And that in turn could not have happened without some impetus that was simply not granted to any other life form.
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If being a scientist means that one must refuse to consider the evidence for design, it’s no wonder if many are looking for alternatives.
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People can afford to loathe traditional media for its missteps because they have alternatives in social media now.
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The messy processes of the brain that enable the various layers of consciousness bear no relationship to what happens in computers.
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Explainaways protect the system from unwanted evidence by ignoring or dismissing it. But when the weight of such evidence grows, they stop sounding persuasive.
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Reading for entertainment alone will become increasingly rare. I expect we will return to a culture where people who read are mainly looking for new ideas.
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Did Neanderthal man get smarter or is there a growing realization of the fact that the human mind has no history? We see it where and when we see it.
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We can’t do more than wonder but the main thing to see here is that the special position of humans might enable it.
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As an editor, I have often quietly substituted more reliable sources for information than Wikipedia when preparing various authors’ work for publication.
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Things have really gone south if people need to be taught how to flirt without technology.
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Consciousness is an immaterial creation given only to human beings to enable us to have a relationship with a higher power and to understand our universe better.
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Egnor notes that intellect is the capacity to contemplate universals. In this respect, a human being is more different from an ape than an ape is from a virus.
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The people trying to manufacture human language from ape laughter simply don’t have a better hypothesis. But much seems to depend on pretending otherwise.
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