Hopefully improving primary and secondary education would help to even out these discrepancies, but I agree that at present this is a very big problem. Here in...
I'm glad you are enjoying it. I've been interested in the brain and mind since before medical school (it's probably why I became a neurologist). The first book...
Just to let you know that the Sept-Oct CFN newsletter <http://www.naturalism.org/CFN%20Newsletter.htm> is out, with links to a review of J.P. Moreland's book...
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2009/2699425.htm Interesting, comprehensive view of human evolution and behaviour. Naturalistic. Graeme...
Hey guys and gals. First off, I wanted to extend a recommendation of Thomas Metzinger's book the Ego Tunnel. His type of representational understanding of ...
Let's start off by assuming NFW. Each of us is fully caused, yada yada. Let's also assume humans have a basic interest in the golden rule, as we all want to...
Hi Lyndon, Thanks for the song, maybe post the lyrics in a separate file since I didn't catch all of them. Any other philosophical tune-smiths out there? Re...
... Not true for psychopaths. ... I'm not clear on what you find confusing. We act a certain way in a certain situation because that is the way our brains are...
... That's interesting. My first response was to point out that psychopathology is generally a biological disorder - but that isn't quite true. In fact just...
I think the Golden Rule is an expression of healthy, intelligent self-interest; it recognizes that our welfare is dependent on others, and theirs on us. It is...
And by Golden Rule I mean the Monolaw as defined by Steve Stokes, my version of which is: Treat others as you would want to be treated, which includes allowing...
I can see a problem with that. One may feel that they personally should not have the freedom to be gay and use that to deny the rights of others to be gay. ...
Then for that person, homosexuality is immoral. Naturalism implies that there are no external standards of morality, nothing handed down by gods or written in...
Naturalism certainly does not make morality somehow random and entirely arbitrary. If someone tells me homosexuality is wrong, they have to have a reason. If...
Aah it's so good to be back. I've had this yahoo group turned off since I moved house in July and forgot to turn it back on again when we got a new email...
Welcome back, Alice! Sorry to hear about your financial difficulties, especially with small children that must have been tough. Don't be hard on yourself for...
Hi Alice, Good to have you back, I've also been out of touch for a bit due to time pressures. Sounds like you've had a pretty rough run. Sounds pretty...
Consciousness when used in this sense refers to religious ideas with Hindu roots which lack naturalistic justification. The states of consciousness for which...
Hi Ken, That makes sense. What ever we share will have casual effect rippling out throughout society, so it's probably best we aim to let out our good side ...
Alice: Absolutely, it's a good thing to accentuate the positive, to try to put our best side forward. Trying to do better, to feel better, to treat ourselves...
Thanks David for this strong and to the point mail. What a breath of fresh air being on this group is again... it's amazing how far one can drift when ...
Good one Ken ! Surely it reflects more integrity to be honest about ones levels of happiness ? And like you say, it's normal to experience a broad spectrum and...
Karen Armstrong has established a worldwide "Charter for Compassion." This should interest people here (especially Ken) despite religious underpinnings. ...
I had a dream last night that I was trying to explain the causal web to a guy to try and induce some compassion toward others - I got really frustrated as he...
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