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Education by re-statement of the obvious.
(see "latent learning")
(see "latent learning")
About Me:
I am an art-loving agnostic atheist who greatly enjoys debates and discussions on morality, philosophy, religion, politics, and other social issues. I seek to share my understanding with others, along with an appreciation for the benevolent wonder and awe to be found in secular views of the universe (Humanism).
Though I am optimistic in nature, I stand against organized structures of belief that prematurely assert to "know" the unknowable at the expense of the human community. As many great minds have said before, the world would be a much better place if more conversations involved the three words, "I don't know". As a free-thinking member of civilization who advocates wisdom over strength,
I see it as my duty to remind people that,
"I don't know, and you don't either."
Country:
United States
Occupation:
Nuclear E. Tech. ; Test Specialist
Companies:
Navy ; Space Systems/Loral
Interests:
Transmitting information back and forth between my cerebral cortex and someone else's. It's pretty cool.
Books:
"Rethinking Innateness" by J. Elman et al., "Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology" by Kolb and Whishaw, "Neuroconstructivism" by Mareschal et al., "The Brain that Changes Itself", by Dr. Norman Doidge; "This Is Your Brain On Music" by Dr. Daniel Levitin; "Religious Literacy" by Stephen Prothero; "On Being Certain" by Dr. Robert Burton; "How We Decide" by Jonah Lehrer; "Music, Language and the Brain" by Dr. Aniruddh Patel; "The Hidden Brain" by Shankar Vedantam; "Musicophilia" by Dr. Oliver Sacks; "Genome: an Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters", by Matt Ridley; "Redesigning Humans" by Gregory Stock. Books on genetics, psychology, neurobiology, physics, or anything having to do with the sciences, really.
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I share your sentiments about the more recent atheists and I partly fault the more antagonist and somewhat empty "New Atheists" or "BRIGHTS" or whatever they wish to call themselves. It seems to me like Harris, Dawkins and Hitchens are more interested in the antagonism and attention than in dialogue. This has resulted in a wave of "young atheists" who are mostly interested in attacks than in anything coherent and substantive.
Good work. I am passing it around as much as I can.
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