“Wahhh, we’re all just carbon why does anything matter” is such a basic take that it can’t be broken into more fundamental components
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And yet things like God, transubstantiation, souls, the mind, goodness inherent in actions, purpose, a thing having a nature, telos, are all rejected in part on reductionist grounds.
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Not sure how you can claim the mind is rejected by reductionism; that seems like claiming computer programs don’t exist because it’s all just circuits. Purposes/telos only make sense in reference to a given mind; the purpose of a hammer is to pound nails, etc.
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Have to go rn, will return to respond to some things later. Perhaps quote tweet here the important unfinished threads or summarize things you want me to respond to?
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tbh the endless branching tree structure of twitter threads is tiring and I wish we could just write letters. I will attempt to quote-tweet the important stuff later
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Well, actually, it SHOULD.
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It’s awfully tempting to read “intent” into natural phenomena, e.g. the evolution of humans as a “progression toward more advanced life-forms”; but that is false, and leads to false hierarchies of “advanced” life & chauvinism
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