If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.
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There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).
タグ: independent, action, reality, memory
As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
タグ: enemy, mind, stupid, you
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
タグ: because, direction, tradition, people
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
タグ: human, only, illusion, freedom
Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
タグ: evolution, single, language, words
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