[extropy-chat] Atheism in Decline

[Emlyn]

Ouija has been around for a while; anyone done any serious scientific
research into it?

Emlyn


On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 03:17:56 +0000, Dirk Bruere <dirk at neopax.com> wrote:
> 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...
> 
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