Thanks To Technology, What Almost Anybody Can

We Live In A World That Is Subjectively Open. And We Are Designed By Evolution To Be "informavores", Epistemically Hungry Seekers Of Information, In An Endless Quest To Improve Our Purchase On The World, The Better To Make Decisions About Our Subjectively Open Future.

Churches Have Given Us Great Treasures Such As Music And Architecture. Whether That Pays For The Harm They Have Done Is Another Matter.

It's This Expandable Capacity To Represent Reasons That We Have That Gives Us A Soul. But What's It Made Of? It's Made Of Neurons. It's Made Of Lots Of Tiny Robots. And We Can Actually Explain The Structure And Operation Of That Kind Of Soul, Whereas An Eternal, Immortal, Immaterial Soul Is Just A Metaphysical Rug Under Which You Sweep Your Embarrassment For Not Having Any Explanation.

... There Could Be Talking Bunny Rabbits, Spiders Who Write English Messages In Their Webs, And For That Matter, Melancholy Choo-choo Trains. There Could Be, I Suppose, But There Aren't-so My Theory Doesn't Have To Explain Them.

The Traditional View Of Purpose Says It Comes From On High, From God, From The Creator. Darwin's Idea Of Natural Selection Makes People Uncomfortable Because It Reverses The Direction Of Tradition. Whereas People Used To Think Of Meaning Coming From On High And Being Ordained From The Top Down, Now We Have Darwin Saying, "no, All Of This Design Can Happen, All Of This Purpose Can Emerge From The Bottom Up Without Any Direction At All."