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> Few ideas are as unsupported, ridiculous and even downright harmful as that of the ‘human soul’. Immediately stopped reading. I used to think Aeon was top qu
by Thorentis 4y ago
> Few ideas are as unsupported, ridiculous and even downright harmful as that of the ‘human soul’.
Immediately stopped reading. I used to think Aeon was top quality, but this is hubris dressed up as radical materialism.
- riskneutral 4y agoThat is a LOT of words dedicated to something that the author thinks is "ridiculous." People like this never pause to ask why they spend so much time thinking about things that they say are ridiculous fictions. I can say this because I used to be a radical materialist evangelist myself. Thankfully I grew out of that and settled into a comfortable agnosticism which I find much less exhausting.
- Jiro 4y ago>People like this never pause to ask why they spend so much time thinking about things that they say are ridiculous fictions. Because belief in fictional things can have enormous consequences for society. The things may be fictional, but the humans that believe them are real.