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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Tomorrow, Sunday, at 1:00 in the Roseville Library, I'll be giving a talk on "There Are No Ghosts in Your Brain: Materialist Explanations for the Mind and Religious Belief". Come on down and argue with me!
Now I have to get back to polishing this talk up. I suppose no more than ten powerpoint…
The first review of my talk yesterday is in! Too bad it is from somebody who wasn't there and who is a world-class fool. Yes, it's Michael Egnor again, and he's got a lengthy post up with the pretext of giving me advice on future talks, but is really an attempt to preempt my arguments and chide me…
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…greater science literacy, which is going to lead to the…
Speaking of "mark your calendar," it's John A Davidson's birthday. Just in case you wanted to send him an ecard, PZ. ;-)
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.)
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.
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.
"I love it so" - Bob O'H
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I'd like to read up on that, can you recommend things I should read on that topic?
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.
I'd like to read up on that, can you recommend things I should read on that topic?