Posted by Bob on 10/22/2007, 5:28 am, in reply to "Re: Infection Worse than AIDS" 1) If it is the case, that we are merely animals with enhanced features, then my denial is not a volitional act, it is an imposed consequence of natural law, which dictates what I think, say, and do. 2) If my inward observation of myself as a volitional, moral agent in the physical world, is not merely the illusion of an automaton, then I have ample evidence that I am not merely an assemblage of inert atoms, but rather, that there is an additional component of my being that is not enslaved to natural law. Ergo, I am not just a mere animal with added or enhanced features.
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"If this is what the evidence tells us, then that is the case. And the only reason to deny this is that one finds the prospect distasteful, discomfitting, or otherwise disgusting and unpalatable."
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