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Or Royal Caribbean, Celebrity, even Disney…….anything!!!!

Of course it is important to listen to both sides of “the debate“.

I went to see the Titanosaur one month after the exhibit opened.

This did nothing to cure me of my secret crush on Alice 😉

Alice Roberts is a treasure and a great educator. In a way young people have such great resources if their families would just allow them access. I remember the struggle to learn back in the 60’s. When I went missing my poor Mom knew to check the library first, the little local museum second and then the ocean pier where everything from bottlenose…[Read more]

The publication “Scientific American” has some great editions that can still be purchased. Here and Here.

I enjoy telling racists that we are all descended from Africans, especially the Christian ones. There is more research to be done on this topic but I too am fascinated with the story of human evolution.

This is funny.

There are plenty of vid…[Read more]

a set of community norms that evolved because they were useful.

Then she’s not so far off what I said.  Norms are standards to be upheld, and we are governed and monitored in that direction, by the community and by ourselves.

Since Homo sapiens emerged, seven or more human types inhabited the planet. Today, we’re the only ones left. It’s an odd time in human evolution.

Now that is an understatement. I am fascinated by our fellow extinct humans. The fact that white Euro Christians are the ones with Neanderthal contributions is well…delightful.

Like so many many many times. A star trek episode sums up many philosophical ideas better than most philosophy books do

This line has stuck with me over the years.

“I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.” ~ Gandalf (J. R. R. Tolkein ~ The Hobbit)”

A sim…[Read more]

Unseen, I’m still curious what your answer is.

What do you all think?

Like so many many many times. A star trek episode sums up many philosophical ideas better than most philosophy books do. In an episode of DS9, in a future where Earth is a paradise and a strong Federation reigns, they are invaded by a dominion and humans become somewhat ugly in the war. Quark says:

Let me tell you something…

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Christians would say, it’s also monitored by God, the ultimate voice of conscience.

That is irrelevant to a science based topic.

She just claims, moral sentiments = having a conscience.

I read it that she claims moral sentiments are a set of community norms that evolved because they were useful.

I couldn’t get on with Patricia Churchland’s ideas.

How your brain invents morality.

I think she doesn’t specify how the conscience gets into our heads.  She just claims, moral sentiments = having a conscience.

I think there is a governing and monitoring going on.  The conscience is tied up with the human sense of “ought” – the conscience says w…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg!

Have a great week everyone!!

 
“One day when I was praying, it suddenly occurred to me that I was talking to myself.”

 
― Peter O’ Toole

Davis wrote:

pull their legs off one at a time

Well, if you really want them to suffer just pump a trillion tons of carbon dioxide into their atmosphere and they can “global warming” to death over a century or so.

Yeah, I was gonna say we are actually doing this to all the earth’s creatures now. Is the prime directive continuation of our spe…[Read more]

1. No

and

2. No

that not evolving is bad somehow

That’s not what I meant at all. I included that because for many people, they would be MORE likely to not eradicate some simple life forms if they were eventually to become conscious sentient beings capable of all the wonders and creative abilities and emotion and experiences that we have. The point wasn’t to…[Read more]

pull their legs off one at a time

Well, if you really want them to suffer just pump a trillion tons of carbon dioxide into their atmosphere and they can “global warming” to death over a century or so.