Exactly*
A piece of some new research shows that the last vestige of Naturalists/Emergentalists'** hope of being able to carry on messing up kids' minds has been put out of scientists' heads, I've just learnt.***
A part of the human brain which, they hoped, owing to its size could help them perpetuate their claim to be able one day to pin down (ha, ha!) Thought - and go on spinning their lethal materialist yarn**** - has been, well, cut to size: contrary to some expectations, it's not much bigger than its counterpart in primates.*****
But who cares? Definitely no philosopher worthy of his title. The size of the brain, or even its existence does not matter a jot! Our differentia specifica is not in our brain, but in our mind.
It's Dualism, stupid!
Exactly!
*or actually - probably not.
** I've failed to unearth a relevant link from under a ton or so of new stuff that has been thrown onto the Internet heap since yesterday. I heard it on Radito 4's Today programme. But, really, who cares? I can't afford to clutter my brain with such un-philosophical trivia - it's simply not big enough.
***mine: those who believe in fairies, dwarfs (fairy-tale guys, not unfortunate people), Santa and Emergentism.
****yes, I can see the problem: I cannot perpetuate those sentences indefinitely. I'll start working on this soon (but they are so interesting, aren't they?, that you'll continue to devour them, won't you?#), although I can't make a definte committment, as - as you probably can appreciate - some old habits die rather hard owing to a well-documented phenomenon of ... - (OK, not funny; but I keep trying. Appreciated?)
*****form the jungle, not the holy Roman-Catholic church
#please...
