[extropy-chat] Atheism in Decline

[Dirk Bruere]

Joseph Bloch wrote:

>
> You say you "meet the gods" (which you already admit have no 
> independent existence, being mere psychological archetypes). I say you 
> experienced some interesting brain chemistry, resulting from a few 
> hundred thousand years of evolution that made such experiences a 
> survival trait. The fact that you interpreted those perfectly natural 
> impulses as "meeting the gods" is irrelevant to their actual nature. 
> You're watching the shadows on the wall, but not bothering to see the 
> light behind you. The fact that such experiences are all culturally 
> specific should tell you the origin is organic, not metaphysical.
>
The gestalt formed during a Ouija game is an emergent phenomenon arising 
from the group interaction and can certainly pass the Turing Test.
Gods ditto.
Of course, I could have been hallucinating when I thought I saw the 
planchette spelling stuff out...

-- 
Dirk

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