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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 28, 2011 - 11:04pm PT
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Presenting David Eagleman...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LENqnjZGX0A&feature=player_embedded
This guy's got a future, I think. Not only in neuroscience but in education... science education and general life education.
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Sam Harris on Eagleman:
"...on the subject of religion he appears to make a conscious effort to play the good cop to the bad cop of “the new atheism.” This posture will win him many friends, but it is intellectually dishonest. When one reads between the lines—or even when one just reads the lines—it becomes clear that what Eagleman is saying is every bit as deflationary as anything Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens or I say about the cherished doctrines of the faithful."
http://www.samharris.org/
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Jul 29, 2011 - 12:20am PT
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yeah, i'm possibly a possibilian...yep
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PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
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Jul 29, 2011 - 02:20am PT
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Excellent.
Thanks!
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TrundleBum
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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Jul 29, 2011 - 04:31am PT
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Great speaker.
I find I have to keep reminding myself and I have a tough time'n there just aint no magic if I don't "praise the possibilities".
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Manjusri
climber
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Jul 29, 2011 - 06:48am PT
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Good stuff, except for the silly new term. What he is describing is atheism. Atheism does not require a "commitment" to any belief, but rather the lack of a commitment to theism. It is this very absence of commitment that opens one's perspective to the alternate possibilities.
Sure, some atheists think they know there are no gods, but many (I'd guess most, including myself) see things like Eagleman. There are multiple ways of seeing the universe that can be described as atheist, just as there are different forms of theism.
TED and TEDx are great. I went to TEDxSB last year which was organized by a couple local climbers.
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