tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4398786616468784014.post3645149862988406389..comments2024-03-26T22:46:36.621-07:00Comments on Religious Deviant: Naturalization of teleological language. Say what?Lausten Northhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06784935133094816365noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4398786616468784014.post-65056631503486680772016-09-20T12:01:49.986-07:002016-09-20T12:01:49.986-07:00Thanks Write4U. For the final question, I wasn'...Thanks Write4U. For the final question, I wasn't looking for the mechanism so much as for a framing of the conversation. That is, can we settle the points brought up in the first 5 questions to a degree that allows us to hear each other and develop new points and ideas for how to move forward?Lausten Northhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06784935133094816365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4398786616468784014.post-20690612764262724792016-09-13T23:27:33.194-07:002016-09-13T23:27:33.194-07:00Taking each question:
a)Human technology almost ce...Taking each question:<br />a)Human technology almost certainly emerged from observation of natural events.<br />b)Belief in the supernatural almost certainly emerged from observation of (unexplainable) natural events which followed from natural mathematical functions and geometrics.<br /><br />c)IMO, yes.<br />d)Again yes, the Pontifical Department of Science has adopted the term "evolution" <br />c) In principle Science and Philosophy (Spiritualism) study the same thing but in a different contexts.<br />Science asks for answers to what is extant, philosophy asks for meaning and implication of what is extant.<br />d)IMO, the *mirror neural system*, the cognitive part of the brain.<br /><br />I believe there is an option which allows for compromise.<br /><br />But it would require compromise by discarding the notion of a self-aware and motivated being or condition and replacing it with a pseudo-intelligent mathematical function, which still allows for belief in an abstraction of what David Bohm called an implacable "insight intelligence"<br /><br /><br /><br />e)Write4Unoreply@blogger.com