The Many Varieties of Scientific Materialism

[David Gentle]

> >>>But if these imaging studies are replicated, the results will mean that
> the real enemies of paranoid people are their own brains.<<<
>
> Most of us may not believe in the story of a Devil to whom one can sell
> one's soul, but those who must know something about the soul (considering
> that as clergymen, historians, and artists they draw a good income from it)
> all testify that the soul has been destroyed by mathematics and that
> mathematics is the source of an evil intelligence that while making man the
> lord of the earth has also made him the slave of his machines.

But of course language, clothing and sticks/spears/clubs are machines. Do they steal souls? Of
course, the most dangerous enemy is the enemy which one fails to percieve.

David Gentle