Extremely interesting. And not surprising. I'm still not willing to rule out that the possible brain states may be infinite, and that even with the remarkable potentials of such an organ, that there may be a ghost in this machine that is not wholly emergeant from matter.
20th Century science played a real joke on the old Newtonian materialist order. Not merely in transforming that hard, solid, clockwork universe into a series of tensions and relativities, but because some of the greatest defenders of free will and human possibility are physicists, biologists, and chemists.
The last vanguard of the Newtonian world are, comically, in the humanities, where 19th century scientific thought has finally trickled down with comic effect.
It is ironic that as literary theorists attack the human spirit behind the shield of science, scientists like David Suzuki are urging us back to that path.
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Re: Em goes apoplectic
Date: 2006-02-01 08:31 pm (UTC)20th Century science played a real joke on the old Newtonian materialist order. Not merely in transforming that hard, solid, clockwork universe into a series of tensions and relativities, but because some of the greatest defenders of free will and human possibility are physicists, biologists, and chemists.
The last vanguard of the Newtonian world are, comically, in the humanities, where 19th century scientific thought has finally trickled down with comic effect.
It is ironic that as literary theorists attack the human spirit behind the shield of science, scientists like David Suzuki are urging us back to that path.