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| | A question that has puzzled me is the one of the evolutionary reasons for consciousness. I'm speaking loosely here. Evolution doesn't really have reasons. Changes happen in organisms because the changes in the long run bestow some advantage (or at least no disadvantage) to the survival of the organism. Let's rephrase the question: what evolutionary...
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| | Explaining phenomenal time with implicit causal structures in networks of local binding.
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| Paine's 'The Age of Reason' took America by storm in 1795 when both volumes were published. Paine's critique of traditional Christianity angered America's religious leaders. He ridiculed the Bible and mocked Christian beliefs like Christ's divinity, the Resurrection, and the Virgin Mary, to name a few. Instead, he argued that deism was a better and more authentic worship of God. He famously wrote that "The creation is the Bible of the deist." Sadly, Paine's deism was an idea before its time.