PHILOS 2F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Epiphenomenon, Epiphenomenalism, Outline Of Physical Science

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Evolution is an endless cycle of destruction and reconstruction with no specific goal. Civilizations are violent because it opposes a violent nature. The instincts that we possess from our animal ancestors (ape and tiger instincts) these instincts are shunned and called evil. New words in english at the mid-19th century: scientist . Professional; earning their living through scientific work: agnostic (from huxley) One of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to presume to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog, not under proper control. Physical science is as little atheistic as it is materialistic the materialistic position that there is nothing in the world but matter, force, and necessity is as utterly devoid of justification as the most baseless of theological dogmas. Scientists bet that there is some mistake in what we know. Epiphenomenalism consciousness is a corporeal epiphenomenon of brain activity.

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