Friday, March 5, 2010
tabula rasa
Terrific A&S discussion yesterday prompted by Garrett's personal reflections on the meaning of "spirit" when it's been shorn of immortal connotations but not, quite, of immaterial ones. The ghost in the machine just won't go quietly.
I'm reminded of Steven Pinker's Blank Slate...
...and The Matrix, and Robert Nozick's "Experience Machine," and Michael Shermer's "Soul of Science,"... and here's Professor Pinker interviewing his wife Rebecca Goldstein about her 36 Arguments for the Existence of God.
I'm reminded of Steven Pinker's Blank Slate...
...and The Matrix, and Robert Nozick's "Experience Machine," and Michael Shermer's "Soul of Science,"... and here's Professor Pinker interviewing his wife Rebecca Goldstein about her 36 Arguments for the Existence of God.
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