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...Putting aside whether Steven Pinker is correct that conscious and unconscious thoughts must be in the brain, the most difficult question remains: Where is a thought, an idea, an inspiration, an intention before it appears in the brain? It is in the collective consciousness, which our world calls by many names: God, Yahweh, Allah, Source, Universe. And that is where the soul resides. (The Rev.) Tim O'Connor Cumming, Georgia...
...much more productive for the ultimate goal of achieving peace, rather than writing a one-sided book.” Perhaps anticipating the tension that would arise during the Q-and-A, Dershowitz prefaced it with a plug for an upcoming debate with Johnson Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker about two traditional Jewish foods, latkes and hamentashen. “I am going to devastate the latke,” Dershowitz quipped. —Staff writer Malcom A. Glenn can be reached at mglenn@fas.harvard.edu...
...came away from Pinker's article doubting whether we have souls. If consciousness is a by-product of electrochemical reactions inside our brains, where are our souls? Are our souls a separate entity from this collection of tissue and neurons that keeps our body running? Or when our brain dies, are we snuffed out like a candle, and that is the end of our experience? The more science discovers about the brain, the more I'm convinced that after our brain dies, we die with it. Bill Simon Lansing, Illinois...
There were, however, some contemporary concerns that didn't make the final cut. In October, before finalizing its recommendations, the committee proposed mandating the study of "reason and faith." That drew sharp criticism from faculty members like psychology professor Steven Pinker. "The juxtaposition of the two words makes it sound like 'faith' and 'reason' are parallel and equivalent ways of knowing," he wrote in the Harvard Crimson. "But universities are about reason, pure and simple." Though 71% of incoming students say they attend religious services and many already elect to study religion, the committee gave in, ultimately substituting a "culture...
...creationist views do not affect their science teaching or research,” they should be given degrees. Though we are uncomfortable with “creationists touting legitimate science credentials to add credence to their preposterous views,” as Johnstone Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker commented in an e-mail, to deny such students a Ph.D. would be to start down a slippery slope of almost Orwellian intolerance. Nevertheless, universities have a responsibility to their students to carefully vet candidates for scientific teaching posts to ensure that privately held beliefs incompatible with scientific theory do not make...