Tuesday, May 13, 2014

What or who …

… Blaspheming against the prophets of scientism | spiked review of books. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… in everyday life, even the most resolute reductionist continues to behave as if we all exist as conscious subjects. So why does this idea of the self as illusion matter? As Midgley rightly points out, a world in which thought is the by-product of chemical processes is one in which thoughts can have no meaningful consequence.

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