Christopher Hitchens’ Lies to Atheists
(via nolan)
It’s not really that he lied per se, he was just very vocal about his extremist view typical of reductionistic scientists, which is the prominent perspective embraced by the likes of the Technological Singularity movement (Dean Kaman et al), etc etc.
Reductionism fails to appreciate the power of the whole. Chaos theory and related disciplines, however, expose the fact that the whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Which basically means that, in addition to math and physics, we should appreciate art, poetry, story (narrative) & myth, the improvisational nature of hip-hop and jazz, and the emotion that goes along with all that.
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