(urth) barrington interview

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

Lee: No, not a human brain. A human *soul*.

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Lee <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>  "Is suggesting a car can't spontaneously become a nuclear fusion device
> an example
>  of "Genetic Fallacy"?"
>
>
> >Thomas Bitterman: No, but claiming that a brain cannot work purely in the
> realm of
>
> >symbolic logic and reason because it is the product of millions of years
> of evolution on
>
> >Earth is.
>
>
> I truly don't understand the difference. A gasoline power car cannot turn
> itself into a
>
> nuclear powered device but a human brain can turn itself into a cosmically
> universal
>
> logic machine unrestricted by its origins in an animal skull on planet
> earth?
>
>
> Is the argument that the human brain is an independent, self-constructed
> device which can
>
> completely supersede and separate from its own biological design and
> construction?
>
>
> Or that the human brain is the product of Special Creation, endowed by God
> and made
>
> in His image, thus possessing a measure of His universality?
>
>
> Other?
>
>
> >Rick Norwood: I am not saying that mathematics can solve everything, just
> that what it solves is
>
> >solved once and for all. There are no four-sided triangles.
>
>
> I just don't see how that statement is justified without access to "all"
> there is in the universe.
>
>
> Perhaps my difficulty would be resolved if the statement was restated to:
>
>
> "Math is universal to everything within foreseeable human experience."
>
>
> THAT I could agree with.
>
>
> (Unless I saw this movie ;- )
> http://www.oldfutures.com/Images/foursidedtriangle.jpg)
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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