July 21, 2013
Everything you know about the brain is wrong
July 21, 2013
FROM THE VAULTS: ON FREEDOM AND FREE WILL
As I am away for the next few weeks, I am raiding the vaults, as it were, for old material not published here before, mainly on the theme of human nature. This is a review of Daniel Dennett’s Freedom Evolves, first published in New Statesman, February 2003
Review of Freedom Evolves by Daniel Dennett,
New Statesman, 10 February 2003
Humans are physical beings with evolved brains and evolved minds. Humans are also moral agents with consciousness and will. How should we try to reconcile these very different aspects of our humanness? Is it possible – or even desirable – to attempt such a reconciliation? Much of the spit and fury of recent debates about what science can and cannot tell us about human nature has emerged from attempts to answer these questions.
For some, the ‘dual character’ of human nature is a scientific embarrassment that can only…
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July 21, 2013
Meet the Pathfinders
Three of the volunteers of the Pathfinders Project, a yearlong international service and research trip sponsored by Foundation Beyond Belief, will be discussing the project, themselves, why they are involved, and why humanist service is so important.
With Ben Blanchard, Wendy Webber, and Conor Robinson.
Starts at 11 AM Central!
July 21, 2013
Glenn Greenwald: Growing Backlash Against NSA Spying Shows Why U.S. Wants to Silence Edward Snowden | NationofChange
July 21, 2013
There’s nothing about abortion in the Bible – Salon.com
July 21, 2013
Bill Maher on “Smart Stupid People”
“There’s no more attractive figure in the Republican Party these days than an anti-intellectual with an advanced degree,” Maher said, noting other figures like Antonin Scalia, Ted Cruz, and Bobby Jindal, “who are accomplished scholars on the outside, and on the inside a creamy layer of [Michele] Bachmann.”
The Road 