The Watchmaker: my fav argument

[Belacqua]

You refer back to a Psychology book, (Okay, that's your ballywick and I get that) but produce particular quote that's, like 150 years old? Huh?

I think the Darwin quote is believable, don't you? Despite its age.

If people used to think that the soul was a divine spark placed into each individual by God, then discovering that people evolved would be likely to affect that belief. This doesn't mean that we should be uncritical of the findings of evolutionary psych, but as an atheist I would think you'd want psychology to be cognizant of evolution and rethink its precepts, wouldn't you? 

Heck, lets go off and pull up Nagel's "What it is to be a bat." and plug that into the discussion?

That wouldn't be strange. "What is it like to be a bat?" is a serious question and has been instrumental in how we think about our phenomenological experience. Do you think it's outmoded or something? 

Bats and people evolved differently, so it makes sense to think that they experience the world differently. 

Recently I've read criticism that says brain science may be approaching things in a way that's even more outmoded than that. The fact that current neuroscience explanations are very materialistic, cause and effect type of formulations, may in fact be stuck in a Newtonian world that physicists have long discarded. If modern physics accepts entangled telepathic particles, non locality, and retro causation, then it isn't crazy to look for these effects in the brain. We know that birds use quantum effects in navigation, for example, so we have no a priori reason to rule them out in humans. What the brain does may turn out to be a lot stranger than we are currently imagining.