Dennis Overbye has an excellent summary of the mind-versus-matter debate in the first NYT Science Times of the new year.
If people freak at evolution, how much more will they freak if scientists and philosophers tell them they are nothing more than sophisticated meat machines, and is that conclusion now clearly warranted or is it premature?
–Michael Silberstein (a science philosopher at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania)
Free Will: Now You Have It, Now You Don’t – New York Times
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Youch! That is high. Good article though. I get the paper, and I guess Times Select comes with it.
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Hey Richard, they’re chargin $5 to read this one at TimesSelect. Too pricey for a simple article.