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LOL: 84% of US College Students Believe They Have a Soul and 73% Believe that God Gave It to Them!
Partial book review of Julien Musolino’s 2015 The Soul Fallacy:
eoht.info/page/Julien+Musolino
With discussion of why retinal, DTA, and AG, which are CH-based animate things:
eoht.info/page/Animate+thing
have souls and that self-motion is a violation of the first law of motion.
With discussion of Baron d’Holbach’s System of Nature:
eoht.info/page/The+System+of+Nature
“When it is said, that man is not a free agent, it is not pretended to compare him to a body moved by a simple impulsive cause: he contains within himself causes inherent to his existence; he is moved by an interior organ, which has its own peculiar laws, and is itself necessarily determined in consequence of ideas formed from perceptions resulting from sensations which it receives from exterior objects. As the mechanism of these sensations, of these perceptions, and the manner they engrave ideas on the brain of man, are not known to him; because he is unable to unravel all these motions; because he cannot perceive the chain of operations in his soul, OR the motive principle that acts within him, he supposes himself a free agent; which, literally translated, signifies, that he moves himself by himself; that he determines himself without cause: when he rather ought to say, that he is ignorant how or for why he acts in the manner he does.”
— Baron d’Holbach (1770), The System of Nature (pg. 97)
LOL: 84% of US College Students Believe They Have a Soul and 73% Believe that God Gave It to Them!
Partial book review of Julien Musolino’s 2015 The Soul Fallacy:
eoht.info/page/Julien+Musolino
With discussion of why retinal, DTA, and AG, which are CH-based animate things:
eoht.info/page/Animate+thing
have souls and that self-motion is a violation of the first law of motion.
With discussion of Baron d’Holbach’s System of Nature:
eoht.info/page/The+System+of+Nature
“When it is said, that man is not a free agent, it is not pretended to compare him to a body moved by a simple impulsive cause: he contains within himself causes inherent to his existence; he is moved by an interior organ, which has its own peculiar laws, and is itself necessarily determined in consequence of ideas formed from perceptions resulting from sensations which it receives from exterior objects. As the mechanism of these sensations, of these perceptions, and the manner they engrave ideas on the brain of man, are not known to him; because he is unable to unravel all these motions; because he cannot perceive the chain of operations in his soul, OR the motive principle that acts within him, he supposes himself a free agent; which, literally translated, signifies, that he moves himself by himself; that he determines himself without cause: when he rather ought to say, that he is ignorant how or for why he acts in the manner he does.”
— Baron d’Holbach (1770), The System of Nature (pg. 97)
