tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4147219.post7878184499263883528..comments2024-03-11T07:26:04.670-05:00Comments on Posthuman Blues: Machttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11074004681516756703noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4147219.post-7330143894168199312008-05-17T01:23:00.000-05:002008-05-17T01:23:00.000-05:00I think the very concept of "belief" is positively...I think the very concept of "belief" is positively toxic to rational discourse. Not just belief in imaginary gods, but belief in *anything*.Machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11074004681516756703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4147219.post-89832407341452814272008-05-16T02:48:00.000-05:002008-05-16T02:48:00.000-05:00I wouldn't personally say that belief in a "God" w...I wouldn't personally say that belief in a "God" was childish, but that our belief SYSTEMS dedicated to this understanding, are rather childish. Overly complicated while still being too simplistic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4147219.post-86857326754756799602008-05-14T12:52:00.000-05:002008-05-14T12:52:00.000-05:00Mac,You should read _The Mind of God_ by physicist...Mac,<BR/>You should read _The Mind of God_ by physicist Paul Davies. In this book Davies explores the possibility of an intelligence behind the cosmos -- albeit not exactly the sort of intelligence imagined by religion. <BR/><BR/>I personally am inclined to think that there's no intelligence to account for our existence; I basically accept it as a brute fact. I can understand, though, why many people would find this way of thinking unsatisfactory for themselves. <BR/><BR/>Ken Y.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4147219.post-91114420345264789862008-05-14T07:06:00.000-05:002008-05-14T07:06:00.000-05:00...if "nature" abhors a vacuum, the human brain de......if "nature" abhors a vacuum, the human brain detests unexplained phenomenon and will go to unimaginable lengths to conceive of Illuminati-like scenarios to reassure itself of its place in this particular space/time continuum. This impulse propels both the finest and the worst in us: science/religion and all that they have wrought.<BR/><BR/>Should we survive religion long enough, science may expose the underpinnings of our existence.<BR/><BR/>If history is any indicator, it will be a near thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com