Of course we well know people believe, and have believed, tons of obviously false supernatural nonsense, and done so because our brains were not intelligently designed and make countless errors in evaluating reality, unless we tame our errant brains with more reliable methods.
How do defective brains retrain themselves? How do defective brains fix themselves? How does an errant brain recognize its errant wiring and rewire itself?
According to Carrier, our brains are how we perceive reality. If the organ we use misperceives reality because it wasn't intelligently designed, how is that brain in a position to devise more reliable methods?
Take a defective industrial robot. It keeps manufacturing defective products. It is unable to self-correct.
Of take someone high on acid. As long as he is tripping out, he's in no position to distinguish reality from hallucination. The organ he uses to interpret reality misinterprets reality, so he has no standard of comparison to fall back on.
How do defective brains fix themselves? C'mon, that's no more difficult than meaningless clumps of matter giving themselves meanings! Oh, wait...
ReplyDeleteIt's almost comical how Carrier fails to follow through on the implications of his statements.
If our brains are wacked and we can't truly evaluate reality, then we would never know it. The fact that Carrier can state the issue proves it is false :)
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