[extropy-chat] Faculty X

[Dirk Bruere]

Alfio Puglisi wrote:

>On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Dirk Bruere wrote:
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>>Yadda yadda... heard it before.
>>Next, love is nothing but hormonal imbalace, followed by 'emotions -
>>animal instincts to be eliminated in the new Master Race'.
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>If love is a hormonal imbalance, then I like my hormonal imbalances. Why
>do you think that explaining the physical substrate of love and emotions
>would diminish them?
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I don't.
Perhaps you should ask our militant atheists why explaining the physical 
substrate of mystical experience would diminish it. They seem to think 
it would, or if not, then *should*.

-- 
Dirk

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