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Thanks. Dreaded Anomaly Send a noteboard - 01/12/2010 03:30:46 AM
I would write your replies if I cared enough, which I no longer do (in this context). The anthropomorphic bias, I'm convinced, is the cause of many misunderstandings and biases in "discussions" such as these. Eventually, I do think most people will get there -- I know it took me a few years to really get it. Taleb explains it well by referring to Casanova.

Regards,

MM


Assertions like the one to which I replied press my buttons because scientific discovery is impressive enough to be appreciated in its own right. It really bothers me when people misappropriate science (new or old) to fuel their own irrational philosophies (something which happens more often with quantum physics, but there's plenty of misunderstanding of biology to go around, too).
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Seems to put atheists in a bit of a catch-22 there. Ghavrel - 30/11/2010 05:54:25 AM 812 Views
Bwa? Craig - 30/11/2010 06:45:33 AM 746 Views
Sorry, yeah. That is not my position. Ghavrel - 30/11/2010 07:03:17 AM 739 Views
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What an arbitrary and meaningless statement. *NM* Ghavrel - 30/11/2010 07:52:13 PM 269 Views
Anthropomorphizing concepts is a cognitive bias. Dreaded Anomaly - 30/11/2010 11:19:23 PM 647 Views
Only given a certain metaphysical framework. Ghavrel - 01/12/2010 12:18:09 AM 690 Views
Mind dumbing that down a bit? Isaac - 01/12/2010 12:43:47 AM 630 Views
I think he is saying Darth_Katie - 01/12/2010 01:26:34 AM 823 Views
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In short, demanding that everyone use your particular worldview is unfair. Ghavrel - 01/12/2010 02:21:26 AM 744 Views
Those worldviews are unsupported by empirical evidence. Dreaded Anomaly - 01/12/2010 01:41:27 AM 831 Views
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Empiricism is unsupported by empirical evidence. *NM* Ghavrel - 01/12/2010 02:21:52 AM 276 Views
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Time does not exist separately from space, as Einstein demonstrated almost a century ago. Dreaded Anomaly - 01/12/2010 03:36:56 AM 777 Views
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Thanks. Dreaded Anomaly - 01/12/2010 03:30:46 AM 914 Views
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I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords. *NM* ranagrande - 30/11/2010 02:35:04 PM 279 Views
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It's this kind of blind adherence to political correctness that is tearing us apart! Darth_Katie - 01/12/2010 01:28:39 AM 633 Views
Down right genocidal toward them Isaac - 01/12/2010 01:31:47 AM 632 Views
Genocide is a bit extreme ranagrande - 01/12/2010 02:13:18 AM 665 Views
They had better have a green man *NM* Camilla - 30/11/2010 10:45:56 AM 251 Views
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I'm actually a tiny bit giddy about this. *NM* TaskmasterJack - 01/12/2010 01:04:49 AM 265 Views
Re: Arsenic. *NM* Gaps - 01/12/2010 02:09:51 AM 281 Views
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