tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post1916818790745326078..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: The Darwinian delusionRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-55373335269551007962013-03-04T13:52:54.295-05:002013-03-04T13:52:54.295-05:00Psychologists and neuroscientists are also showing...<i>Psychologists and neuroscientists are also showing that the experience of will itself could be an illusion that evolution has given us to connect our thoughts, which stem from unconscious processes, and our actions, which also stem from unconscious process…Our feeling of personal agency is so overwhelming that we have no choice but to pretend that we do choose, and get on with our lives.</i><br /><br />The wording is bizarre. We are capable of having "illusions" and "pretending". But what sort of entities are capable of pretending or of having illusions appear to them? Conscious ones, not mechanistic ones. The very words chosen to describe the materialist conception of the mind point to something beyond the merely mechanistic and thus refute the point that is trying to be made.C. Andironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04850876481256430215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-12326501230262889712013-03-03T11:12:02.109-05:002013-03-03T11:12:02.109-05:00Coyne's analysis is an exercise in self-refuta...Coyne's analysis is an exercise in self-refutation. He must assume the viewpoint of an outside observer, giving an objective, 3rd-person description of what human nature is really like. Yet according to his own analysis, that kind of critical detachment from what his brain is telling him shouldn't be possible. stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16547070544928321788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-46236162529961120292013-03-03T09:14:17.727-05:002013-03-03T09:14:17.727-05:00If there is delusion over the character of human n...If there is delusion over the character of human nature, it is universal. And whether one takes sides with secular or religious argument is irrelevant. So long as we remain an unsustainable species, our human nature remains neither moral nor spiritual, only aspirational without a way to realize such ends! <br />http://www.energon.org.ukgoliahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09484401523720233875noreply@blogger.com