I agree with this. If a schizophrenic tells you that he obeys the voices in his head, then you would not accept his testimony on any subject. He is not even speaking for himself.
Sam Harris is one of those determinists. Physicist Brian Keating interviewed Harris, and trashes him in this video. Keating says Harris is a secular fundamentalist, has Trump (and Musk) derangement syndrome, lacks self-awareness, and has poorly thought out Bible criticisms.
One of the main arguments is that Harris says that anyone could write a better book than the Bible, because the Bible condones slavery. Keating says that the same word was used for slaves and servants, and the Bible says they must be treated well.
I agree that criticizing the Bible because it has slavery is lazy. Everyone had slavery. Better economic systems had not been invented.
Harris appears to have lost his grip on reality by taking illegal psychodelic drugs. He says he does not even have a feeling of free will.
Here is a new video with Harris and Penrose, on consciousness.
Criticizing the Bible 'because it contains slavery' is no different than saying "I reject ALL history if it doesn't agree with my present day sensibilities." This line of reasoning is what lead to leftist idiots who have no idea nor desire to know what happened up until their birth.
ReplyDelete“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero