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- Metaphilosophical Reflections III: The Skeptical Dialectic | Three Pound Brain
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Shermer also brings an analysis that I was expecting: the research of psychiatrist Ian Stevenson, often referred not by skeptics as offering empirical evidence of reincarnation. But how many such marks constitute a hit— one, two, ten? And how close do they need to be to count as a hit? The most unexpected chapter, the last of part two, in the positive way was Afterlife for Atheists , on which Shermer greatly summarizes all groups or movements dedicated to life extension— heavens on earth , in some sense.
The cryonicists, for instance, believe they would be able to reanimated and restore human body functions years after it was frozen. It is a strong assumption, since they never had done it so far. Critically, there are problems with both movements, as detailed by Shermer, sharing his experience as an advisory board of Brain Preservation Foundation. Shermer deals with all these ideas of immortality with his usual degree of skepticism throughout the book, and he elegantly ends the book with a positive tone—how to find meaning in a meaningless universe.
As a science writer, Nogueira was a regular columnist for Skeptical Briefs —the newsletter of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He has also made contributions to Skeptic magazine. Alert: This site works better with javascript.
Metaphilosophical Reflections III: The Skeptical Dialectic | Three Pound Brain
Skepticism is supposed to point out that the same flaw is in the foundation of Atheism that is in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic one God belief structure, but that is entirely too rare. And I am asking that question. Few really are. First time online, though. It is far more common to be a rationalization that provides empowerment to assault religious belief and is used against no other belief system, except Christianity.
A true Skeptic does not attack a Foundational truth, the way you describe.
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These questions take responsibility for the change the Skeptic is promoting in society. Rather than rationalizing attacking an unprovable simply because it is unprovable, it looks at the result of his efforts, before launching the campaign, in order to ensure society benefits. And that takes honest work and effort to learn about the entity under attack.
The latter is a good way to make straw men. Thus, the specifics of my views regarding science have not been discussed. I did not claim that my position does not ultimately impact science. Of course it does! This ought to be clear, I think, when I discuss the repudiation of the inherent epistemic-practical authority of common life.
I happen not to be an atheist. Ergo, my question is this: are you attacking Atheism in equal measure to Christian belief? Oh, please. I solved it when I was 11, for goodness sake. If the external world did not exist, you would not have a hand to manipulate it with or a type with in order to discuss the issue with me. To go down that rabbit hole, you must decide whether I exist, and if not, what are you debating with? The evidence that I exist is that I am saying things you cannot conceive of anyone saying; therefore, I am not a product of your delusion.
Now you have a Foundational Truth you can work with: you live in a world in a universe with other people whose thoughts interest you. We perceive a world. To operate in any other world is simply impossible without this one as an intermediary. The fact that you believe you will die without food proves that you believe in the external universe. That is, of course, the only answer I left to you. I have never in this lifetime seen any Skeptic attack Atheism.
I note that you completely avoided the topic of unintended consequences. I am not surprised.
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I am also not surprised by a perceived paradigm shift in your argument. But the technical terms are beginning to fly. There was a wonderful episode of Home Improvement on that topic. Tim tried to teach three women how to fix something on the show, in response to complaints the show was too male-centric. It took his neighbour, of course, to point out that Tim had undermined his own efforts by using technical words the women were not trained in — flange, spanner, niblick, etc. He achieved the desired goal by preventing his students from learning, by using language to prevent them from understanding his instructions.
It was also pointed out that Tim did this without thinking about it… without realizing what he had done. It is the nature of the ego to demonstrate its superiority, and language is one vector for that.
He then went inside, and taught his wife the right way how to fix the toilet when it ran on. It is unnecessarily exclusionary. By using technical jargon for many terms that have more commonly understood terms, Scott may save time, but he is speaking only to the initiated.
The task of understanding his point is lost in dictionary and encyclopedia hunting, only to find that the same sentence could have been written in common language readily. You seriously conjoined those two words? Okay, open Google, toss it in, and get… a whole lot of nothing. Golly gee whiz, the only people that can understand what you just said are people that read exactly what you read. The term was either recently invented, or is just not in the public knowledge yet. Thus, it can mean literally anything you want it to, to your convenience.
Any definition that I choose to invent for it is incorrect, because you can redefine it after I attempt to. Cognition encompases memory, language, learning, reasoning, and problem solving.
The Cognitive Landscape would encompass the wide variety of ways people deal with issues that require cognition. What is excluded from cognition is emotion, spirituality, and sensation. Judging the merits of Skepticism solely on the foundation of cognition permits ignorance of its consequences to these other modes of thought. So, is cognition more important than any other mode of thought? The only justification for ignoring those other human issues is if Cognition is inherently superior to all others.
A typical problem is impulse spending. Application of cognitive techniques to prevent impulse spending by taking only a limited revenue stream with you, for instance solves problems created by unwanted emotional desire. In these times, cognition is superior since it solves the problems created by other modes of thought. When someone suffers an excessive personal loss death of family members, specifically it is understandable that they might consider suicide, but does cognition solve that problem and save their life?
You are not going to save a life by attacking Foundational belief or with cold logic. In truth, grief has proven the most common time when an individual converts to spirituality. The comforting thought that you, in some way, might be once again in the presence of a loved one is a powerful hope that inspires the process of grief to move forward and provide meaning to death, in what a Skpetic would present a meaningless universe.
Cognition provides no hope to the grieving, but it is hope that lifts despair and prevents suicide. Clearly, telling an individual in grief that their loved one is probably simply nonexistent is no aid to dealing with the loss, since it amplifies the loneliness by pointing out the permanency of the situation. Cognition is clearly inferior when dealing with some issues of emotion. So, my presentation to you is that seeking the cognitive landscape is hampering you.
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It is restrictive, and can lead to false conclusions, because it inherently excludes factors that are important to other people. Spirituality has moved beyond simple belief in God. Spiritualism for them is a form of perception, what they call an opening of the mind. I, personally, cannot do it and never will. I can use this to solve complex packing problems, for instance — a kind of 3D tetris with boxes — but it also serves in creating new inventions.
Join us and have Faith, and you will, too. It is the unanswerable response to the treatment of a Skeptical Atheist. So, my presentation to you is this: you are flat out wrong if you think Philosophy has even an iota of hope to determine what you want, which is the method of human thought processes you call the Cognitive Landscape, whether I got your exact definition or not. It never could. It is the last vestige of relevancy it has left, since it has run the course on every reasonable argument concerning Life, the Universe, and Everything, and come up with a lot of words, but no conclusions.
Science has stolen from it the nature of the Universe, and Psychology and Medical Sciences have taken over the nature of the Human Mind. We can now identify which parts of our brains we use when we think, and discover which parts are re-used by different problems potential heuristics. Experiments progress to isolate and capture the human thought process, in order to repair insanity and brain damage.