My mission--continue, or stop.

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Shaun Johnston:
In modern times we've made two revolutionary discoveries. One is, how changes in physical matter can be accounted for in terms of physical laws that can predict precisely what will happen next. Having given rise to science (how this can be studied) and industry (how it can be applied) this revolution is well under way.

The second revolution is, how emergence of species of living creatures can be accounted for in terms of them evolving from one another. This revolution, despite its promise of how much it could tell us about ourselves, remains stillborn through the mistaken application to it of principles coming out of the first revolution--reductive physicalism.

For this second revolution to advance it should be taken from under the wing of science and studied on its own terms. Tip: one recent product of evolution is creatures with minds. Minds are better studied through methods of the humanities than through those of science. Tell me, does this interest you?

Details: Written by Shaun Johnston Shaun Johnston; Published: November 16, 2017 November 16, 2017; Hits: 2230 2230

For two and half decades I’ve been publishing books and websites promoting a revolutionary new way of looking at the world. But I’ve made no impact. I have to wonder, is it time for me to give up? My problem involves consciousness and evolution, and what they say about mind. I can’t do without mind. And I want the humanities to insist that they can’t do without it either. I want to persuade the humanities to come up with an origin story that gives mind its due role. That’s my mission. Am I misguided?

Or does this, in fact, matter?

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