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Posted on: June 24, 2007 3:44 PM, by PZ Myers
I'll be speaking at the Minnesota Atheists on 22 July, on "There Are No Ghosts in Your Brain: Materialist Explanations for the Mind and Religious Belief". Michael Egnor is welcome to stop on by.
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Speaking of "mark your calendar," it's John A Davidson's birthday. Just in case you wanted to send him an ecard, PZ. ;-)
Posted by: Coragyps | June 24, 2007 3:59 PM
Of course there are ghosts in the brain. That's what firewalls and barrier mazes are there to protect!
(Yeah, it's basically a given I would make that joke.)
Posted by: Blake Stacey, OM | June 24, 2007 4:40 PM
If you believe that there are no ghosts in the brain, does that mean you think people who see ghosts are seeing something outside their brains?
On a more serious note, it sounds interesting, I hope we may have some posts here about it.
Posted by: sailor | June 24, 2007 5:38 PM
Coragyps - I think that's an open invitation to go and heckle PZ by repeatedly telling him that he's wrong and you're right, refusing to give any details (as it's all in your earlier heckles), and follow it up by insulting PZ repeatedly before running out. Only to come back 5 minutes later.
If you have a central European friend who can cheer you on, so much the better.
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Posted by: Bob O'H | June 25, 2007 12:49 AM
I'd like to read up on that, can you recommend things I should read on that topic?
Posted by: Håvard | June 25, 2007 5:39 AM
I'm with Havard.
I think there's room for ghosts, spirits and souls. I bet they're smaller than, like, muons or something.
In order to expand your audience you might think twice about "religion is a parasite." Maybe a primitive misinterpretation or mistranslation of a phenomenon that is now better understood.
Posted by: Adam | June 26, 2007 3:51 PM