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Neurons Gone Wild

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But to accept them, or at least our experiences of them, and yet give them a scientific explanation: there's a task worthy of our art. It demands that we look them in the eye and take them seriously, while standing absolutely firm in our materialist convictions.

Neurons Gone Wild | Melting Asphalt Melting Asphalt About Archive Goodies Subscribe Neurons Gone Wild by Kevin Simler To reject gods and spirits is easy: just bully them away in the name of science. But to accept them, or at least our experiences of them, and yet give them a scientific explanation: there's a task worthy of our art. It demands that we look them in the eye and take them seriously, while standing absolutely firm in our materialist convictions. I don't know how much of what I'm about to say is true. All I know is that it's damn interesting. Today we court madness from the bed

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