![]() ![]() To all of us living within the reign of the politics of freedom, this book is a missile barrage blasting at our cultural taproot. Our current revolutionary order embraces the undeniable history of both our biological (genetic) and cultural (memetic) evolution. ![]() Intellectual compromise, though rare, is not a new tactic, as proved by Tycho Brahe's compromise (his planets circled both sun and Earth), which long ago failed to thwart the coming scientific revolution. Thinkers of Pinker's stripe offer a compromise (we are free robots). ![]() Not divine, but engineered by evolution's Richard Dawkins-dubbed Blind Watchmaker.Įagleman's book is clearly a fusillade at those who, like Pinker and other defenders of our freedom-based moral/social/political/legal order, want to strike a compromise between the status quo and the bio-robotic humankind gathering on the horizon. As I (and everyone aforementioned) see it, the march of science has revealed us for what we truly are: bio-robots. I am a "Know Thyself" junky, a philosopher of the ancient Greek stripe. I love the book precisely because it reveals so many of the strings and levers of human nature. ![]()
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