I don't beleive that parents "raise" children (see Harris, "The Nurture Assumption). I drink and take drugs, can't get my kid to try it with me, he doesn't beleive in it. I think he's finally started having sex with his girlfriend though. If you make yourself really small, you can ext...

I don't beleive that parents "raise" children (see Harris, "The Nurture Assumption). I drink and take drugs, can't get my kid to try it with me, he doesn't beleive in it. I think he's finally started having sex with his girlfriend though. If you make yourself really small, you can ext...

Raised atheist. Tried to beleive (in "God"). Didn't work. If you make yourself really small, you can externalize virtually everything. Daniel Dennett, 1984

Chris OConnorQuote:Years ago we were almost all men.Wow! Have you tried to get this research published? If you make yourself really small, you can externalize virtually everything. Daniel Dennett, 1984

Gazzaniga ties abortion to euthanasia and old age. There is a point after which deterioration of an aging brain leaves nothing of the person it once was. Gazzaniga finds that most cultures will agree that once the person is completely gone there is no ethical issue of keeping the empty body alive, a...

There is no way for the clone to give informed consent for the procedure. Therefore it is not ethical. If you make yourself really small, you can externalize virtually everything. Daniel Dennett, 1984

GinofQuote: "p45 - Finally, neither genes nor family environment accounts for a substantial portion of the variation in complex human behavioral traits." So, is anyone else curious as to what does? As the father of a 10 month old son, I am! I hope he answers this laterI think he does, but ...

ginofQuote:Why can't we just all be decent to each other? It wouldn't be that horrible. And yet we find ourselves in a world where that doesn't happen. Why?This is a critical intersection between religion and morality. I would assert that "being decent to each other" may be a fundamental m...

TaravQuote:. . .this was a new one for me. Basically, this hypothesis puts forth the idea that we help others to relieve our own simulated distress.I thought this was the standard explanation.Quote:This is based on the idea that people unconsciously mimic the distress we see in others. This simulati...

MadArchitectQuote:Anytime someone elaborates on a newly described disease, someone feels inclined to attribute it to any major historical figures who exhibited characteristics similar to the symptoms of their pet disease. Which is, I think, part of a larger phenomenon of trying not merely to underst...