barrington interview

Lee · 10 Oct 2014, 13:51 · from 2014-October.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee)
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:51:31 -0400
Subject: (urth) barrington interview
Message-ID: <BLU175-W26F3EEA1B4662953A189ACFA10 at phx.gbl>

 "Is suggesting a car can't spontaneously become a nuclear fusion device an example
 of "Genetic Fallacy"?"

>Thomas Bitterman: No, but claiming that a brain cannot work purely in the realm of 

>symbolic logic and reason because it is the product of millions of years of evolution on 

>Earth is.

I truly don't understand the difference. A gasoline power car cannot turn itself into a

nuclear powered device but a human brain can turn itself into a cosmically universal

logic machine unrestricted by its origins in an animal skull on planet earth?

Is the argument that the human brain is an independent, self-constructed device which can 

completely supersede and separate from its own biological design and construction?

Or that the human brain is the product of Special Creation, endowed by God and made

in His image, thus possessing a measure of His universality?

Other?

>Rick Norwood: I am not saying that mathematics can solve everything, just that what it solves is 

>solved once and for all. There are no four-sided triangles.

I just don't see how that statement is justified without access to "all" there is in the universe.

Perhaps my difficulty would be resolved if the statement was restated to:

"Math is universal to everything within foreseeable human experience."

THAT I could agree with.

(Unless I saw this movie ;- ) http://www.oldfutures.com/Images/foursidedtriangle.jpg)

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