> We, on the other hand, with our dissection of cadavers, organ
> transplantation, cosmetic surgery, body shops, laboratory fertilization,
> surrogate wombs, gender-change surgery, "wanted" children, "rights over our
> bodies," sexual liberation, and other practices and beliefs that insist on
> our independence and autonomy, live more and more wholly for the here and
> now, subjugating everything we can to the exercise of our wills, with little
> respect for the nature and meaning of bodily life.
> --Leon R. Kass, Toward a More Natural Science
Why doesn't someone ask Kass to define "the nature and meaning of bodily
life"?
I don't think he has a clue.
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Useless hypotheses, etc.:
consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind, free will, qualia,
analog computing, cultural relativism, GAC, Cyc, Eliza, cryonics, individual
uniqueness, ego, human values, scientific relinquishment, malevolent AI,
non-sensory experience, SETI
We move into a better future in proportion as science displaces superstition.
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