tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post3788159616878211962..comments2024-03-28T08:57:53.180+00:00Comments on Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart: Evolution of the Soul in the BrainLarry Arnharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14619785331100785170noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-62610060693485279402007-07-02T13:09:00.000+01:002007-07-02T13:09:00.000+01:00Other animals have some capacity for voluntary act...Other animals have some capacity for voluntary action--acting to satisfy their desires. But only human beings (at adulthood) have the capacity for deliberate choice--acting in the present in the light of past experience and future expectations to conform to some conception of a whole life well-lived. That's why we don't hold children fully responsible for their behavior: they are capable of voluntary action but not deliberate choice. <BR/><BR/>That's why Darwin indicated that human beings were the only truly moral animals. Similarly, Frans de Waal and other primate researchers would say that although the precursors of human morality are manifest in other animals, only human beings have the full capacity for self-conscious moral choice.Larry Arnharthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14619785331100785170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-10075277130062681042007-07-01T21:25:00.000+01:002007-07-01T21:25:00.000+01:00You wrote: "This also suggests that the emergence ...You wrote: "This also suggests that the emergence of the human soul arose in primate evolution once the size and complexity of the primate neocortex passed over a critical threshold, which gave human beings a freedom of thought and action that other animals do not have."<BR/><BR/>What "freedom of thought and action" do humans have that no other animal has?<BR/><BR/>See http://madisonmonkeys.com/monkeys.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-89681688562250502942007-06-27T12:49:00.000+01:002007-06-27T12:49:00.000+01:00So what's your point?So what's your point?Larry Arnharthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14619785331100785170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-16561449026925107392007-06-27T04:14:00.000+01:002007-06-27T04:14:00.000+01:00Larry - try reading a contemporary work on the arg...Larry - try reading a contemporary work on the arguments for and against dualism by an analytic philosopher instead of making yourself look like an ass to people who are actually up to speed on the issues. We hear alot from Darwinists about how Creationists misrepresent evolution, present strawman arguments, act as though their objections haven't been answered, etc. But then we see stuff like this, doing the exact same thing regarding an area outside your own expertise.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com