Re: Young but distant gallaxies

Posted by Orlando Leibovitz on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Young-but-distant-gallaxies-tp839193p1057476.html

Doug,

Maybe Bush was elected in 2004, so that is once. He was selected in 2000.

O

Douglas Roberts wrote:

Günther,

One of the foremost historical reductionists (Descarte) twice demonstrated blind egotism in his "Reductionist Duck" postulate, as follows:

1) that reductionism did not apply to humans, and
2) that when applied to non-humans, the non-human could be reduced to an automata.

I'm not sure which I find most disappointing:  the fact of the egoism amply demonstrated by this postulate, or the blind acceptance of it by so many other modern  "reductionists".

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, though.  I mean after all, this is the same gene pool (evolved 360 years) that elected George W. Bush as our United States president.

Twice.

As to your question regarding a non-egoistic explanation:  recognition of the fact that we simply do not yet understand enough about the complexities of organic intelligence to be making stupid, simplistic reductionist claims about its nature would be a good start...

Cheers,

--Doug

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