Posted: Oct 07, 2017 8:22 pm
romansh wrote:But in what sense are any of these atoms etc free?
Or ... not free. You're saying "what a stupid question this is", but why don't you just come the fuck out and say it?
Describing everything as "collections of atoms" just means you decided to stop thinking about it, and well done for stopping, unless you think you have (or had) a point to make.
If you're actually Joshua Greene, or some schmuck like that, you can't afford to say "what a stupid question this is", but then you're not somebody like Joshua Greene, are you? Maybe zoon is, but in that case, she can't afford to say what a stupid question it is. On the other hand, maybe zoon is just a hobbyist who likes to read the literature of neuroscience and evolutionary psych.
If you read enough of that shit, the drum-beat of vague generalizations you forgot (or declined) to check is going to make you think that it's all starting to jell.