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[jolly]

 >>> Skinner himself did not deny mental processes or concepts (though 
he would have said they were all biochemical and material in nature<<<

McMuffster: "If you can reduce mental processes to 'only' matter and biochemistry, 
your flowchart of questions is stopping way short of all the questions 
that must be asked.

This is true of all fundamentalists, fascists, pragmatists, and 
dogmatists, whatever their stripe."
 
This would be amusing if, for instance, we conveniently forget basic facts such as that the the nazis were for the most part catholics, elitist literrateurs such as Eliot and Pound were catholic-fascists, that monotheists, whether prot., cat. or muslims  have a history or incredible bloodshed and tyranny,.etc.. You also overlook Marx's argument for historical materialism.   I'd say the fundamentalist is you--and fundamentalists typically don't argue for Darwin or materialism, do they. Although this will remind some of alt.atheism 101, the burden is on any theists or mystics or non-materialists to establish the existence and continued viability of the "ghost in the machine." Buena Suerte. 
 

			
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