[extropy-chat] Atheism in Decline: meme map

[Dirk Bruere]

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

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Dirk

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