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Subject: Re: ooooh!!!!! settles hat more firmly on head, tilts up eyebrow....


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Date Posted: 13:26:29 05/20/01 Sun
In reply to: medeis 's message, "ooooh!!!!! settles hat more firmly on head, tilts up eyebrow...." on 20:43:33 05/19/01 Sat
 Okay - personally I know you know more about the brain than I ever could, or would want to. No soft tissue for me, thanks!I concur with the idea of the seperation of life and cognizence. Is life really just the prolonging of cellular activity, or is there something more?

As for Darwin and mythology...here's my take (mind you, my view only)...

Darwin's redefinition of the creation of the human species as a condition of evolutionary chance was so dramatic and volitile because of its negation of the view of the human species as a reflection of some universal entity (ie: the Judeo-Christian Genesis, ancient creation myths, etc.)
In my way of thinking, Darwin erases mythology by exposing natural selection as both viable and existant. It must have been unsettling for all those Victorians to suddenly see themselves in a more mundane light (that is, not as the earthly image of the Judeo-Christian god).

Perhaps I'm not making myself clear (too much grog?). Anyway, I just see Darwin as the break with mythologies, since natural selection is only about chance, and chance just can't be prayed to! Well, not reliably anyway. Pre-Darwin many sciences were still wedded to religion in a fashion. Could there have been a Nietszche before Darwin? I doubt it.

Okay...none of that made sense!
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ok...still working on this one for stormmedeis14:32:04 05/20/01 Sun

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