META: overposting (Re: [extropy-chat] Atheism in Decline: meme map)

[Eugen Leitl]

Dirk (and a couple of others): you're overposting. Way overposting.

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 03:27:34AM +0000, Dirk Bruere wrote:
> Damien Broderick wrote:
> 
> >At 01:14 PM 3/7/2005 -0800, Adrian wrote:
> >
> >>More than one Eastern religion, such as Buddism, seems compatible 
> >>with both
> >>advanced science and advanced tech.
> >
> >
> >A strong countervailing current is spiritual monism: the claim that 
> >All is Consciousness, or rather Consciousness is Primordial, sometimes 
> >these days based in interpretations of QT. While I find this 
> >suggestion preposterous, and almost certainly due to the conceptual 
> >pratfall of category mistake, it's worth looking at, for example:
> >
> >http://www.swcp.com/~hswift/swc/vol06no2/bkrev62.htm
> >
> >That review, typically, includes such unpleasant absurdities as: 
> >"Confronted with the genocidal horrors of our century, reason has 
> >nothing to say." This denies the tentative answers offered by, say, 
> >evolutionary and cognitive psychology without even attempting to 
> >refute them.
> >
> >Still, Goswami and others like him (I don't include such dubious QT 
> >hawkers as Deepak Chopra or Fred Allan Wolf) might be worth a few 
> >days' attention, if only to counter their stance from an informed 
> >position, rather than a priori dismissal.
> >
> >
> You omit Penrose and Hammeroff
> 
> -- 
> Dirk
> 
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