(May 9, 2014 at 11:57 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Are you then embracing the idea that you are a slave according to science?
I'm saying that we're slaves to our biological makeup, and much of what we feel to be the self is an illusion based on brain structure. Given the proper knowledge and technolgy, I could open up your skull and rearrange your brain to turn you into a different person with a completely different personality. We know this from our study of brain injuries.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
