(January 30, 2016 at 6:12 am)Rhythm Wrote: Dissatisfaction with the cogs and gears we see in biology combined with a desperate need to feel special? I doubt that dualist's give much thought to the "immaterial thinking thing" of parrots.I guess the appeal is the assumed immortality of the "cause of the thinking." I get but I don't get it. What's it to the whole that one part of it is immortal? What's it to the body that the heart is still beating in a mad scientists lab?
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. - Denis Diderot
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We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. - Gore Vidal