As I understand it, there is precious little evidence of much marginal benefit—no matter who is making the argument. The religious folk realise it is the devil talking, put their fingers in their ears, and sing the la-la song—which works pretty well. Education will get there in the end. We have people working on that—but it takes a while. The internet should help too.
Dennett once explained:
“Yes, of course I’d much rather have been spending my time working on consciousness and the brain, or on the evolution of cooperation, for instance, or free will, but I felt a moral and political obligation to drop everything for a few years and put my shoulder to the wheel doing a dirty job that I thought somebody had to do.”
Someone has to clean the toilets too—but IMO it doesn’t have to be Daniel Dennett.
As I understand it, there is precious little evidence of much marginal benefit—no matter who is making the argument. The religious folk realise it is the devil talking, put their fingers in their ears, and sing the la-la song—which works pretty well. Education will get there in the end. We have people working on that—but it takes a while. The internet should help too.
Dennett once explained:
“Yes, of course I’d much rather have been spending my time working on consciousness and the brain, or on the evolution of cooperation, for instance, or free will, but I felt a moral and political obligation to drop everything for a few years and put my shoulder to the wheel doing a dirty job that I thought somebody had to do.”
Someone has to clean the toilets too—but IMO it doesn’t have to be Daniel Dennett.