Astonishing Hypothesis (book)

Mind Neuroscience

Michael Egnor asks if materialist neuroscience is an unwitting Sokal hoax

Egnor thinks that while physicist Alan Sokal hoaxed postmodern journals (the famous Sokal hoax. of 1996), materialists like Francis Crick (1916–2004) seem to hoax themselves.

BobRyan Without the belief in absolute morality, there can be no absolute right and wrong. If everything is subjective, then nothing... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
BobRyan It is fascinating just how many people believe in something where there is no evidence to support it, like evolution.... – BioLogos hopes to calm the fears...
kairosfocus Seversky, we both know it is notorious that communities differ on their rules across space and time. Your remark, in... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
martin_r of life to give rise to key living processes such as self-propagation, information processing, and adaptive evolution. i don't want... – Researchers propose trying different recipes for...
hoosfoos Where does moral law come from? One option is that law comes from the king. Might makes right. Another option... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
kairosfocus PS, Hitler, indeed used Darwinist type thought in his book and policy. Any crossing of two beings not at exactly... – Weikart’s new book on Darwinian racism...
Barry Arrington Sev. Without an objective and independent moral standard against which to measure it the only objective evidence is the majority... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
kairosfocus Seversky, when a theory indulges a priori ideological imposition, refuses to address the Newton rule that explanatory causal mechanisms be... – Weikart’s new book on Darwinian racism...
Seversky There you have it. Sev’s position is this: They would prefer tossing babies in dumpsters and I would not. There... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
kairosfocus VL, the explanatory filter would assign closely similar outcomes under similar start points to lawlike mechanical necessity, on looking at... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
kairosfocus DD, evasion pursuant to strawman fallacy, the core of design thought as a scientific matter is the design inference. As... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
Seversky This sounds like one long argumentum ad consequentiam Even if it's all true it doesn't have any bearing on the... – Weikart’s new book on Darwinian racism...
kairosfocus ET, language and tone. KF – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
polistra Just from the basics, it seems strange to start with a liquid. Living things are solid, not liquid. More complex... – Researchers propose trying different recipes for...
polistra What happens when you use an antibiotic is just the bacteria's immune system learning about the new threat and adapting.... – BioLogos hopes to calm the fears...
Belfast @JVL “ I’ll leave it up to you to decide how that could happen and why.” Too busy to decide... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
Belfast @WJM A Tu Quoque argument is no better coming from you than it is from Seversky. – Materialists Know What They Say is...
ET Viola Lee: For example, since math is designed, every example of math showing up in the world is designed. That's... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
Viola Lee To dogdoc: A number of people here would say no. For example, since math is designed, every example of math... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
StephenB WJM: They know it is evil to force someone into a situation that you know with certainty they will endure... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
ET Apparently dogdoc is too willfully ignorant to continue the conversation in a productive manner. There are many possible observations that... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?