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[[keyname::2006-Churchland]] | |||
[[author::Paul Churchland|Churchland, P.]] | |||
[[author::Pat Churchland|Churchland, P.]] | |||
[[year::2006]] | |||
[[cite/author::Churchland 2006]] | |||
[[title::Two heads: A marriage devoted to the mind-body problem]] | |||
[[published in::New Yorker]] | |||
[[cite/source::''New Yorker'', Feb. 12, 2006]] | |||
<call func=smw.let.echo key=abstract>''The article is an account of an extended interview with neuroscientists/philosophers Paul and Pat Churchland. The following extract is the section being commented upon.'' | |||
"I think the more we know about these things, the more we’ll be able to make reasonable decisions," Pat says. "Suppose someone is a genetic mutant who has a bad upbringing: we know that the probability of his being self-destructively violent goes way, way up above the normal. How do we treat such people? Do we wait until they actually do something horrendous or is some kind of prevention in order? Should all male children be screened for | "I think the more we know about these things, the more we’ll be able to make reasonable decisions," Pat says. "Suppose someone is a genetic mutant who has a bad upbringing: we know that the probability of his being self-destructively violent goes way, way up above the normal. How do we treat such people? Do we wait until they actually do something horrendous or is some kind of prevention in order? Should all male children be screened for | ||
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"We’re back to Heinlein! How funny." | "We’re back to Heinlein! How funny." | ||
"This just reminded me. He had wild, libertarian views. The story concerned how you treated people who were convicted by criminal trials. Either you could undergo a psychological readjustment that would fix you or, because you can’t force that on people, you could go and live in a community that was something like the size of Arizona, behind walls that were thirty feet high, filled with people like you who had refused the operation. The story | "This just reminded me. He had wild, libertarian views. The story concerned how you treated people who were convicted by criminal trials. Either you could undergo a psychological readjustment that would fix you or, because you can’t force that on people, you could go and live in a community that was something like the size of Arizona, behind walls that were thirty feet high, filled with people like you who had refused the operation. The story was about somebody who chose to go in. What annoyed me about it – and it would annoy you, too, I think – was that Heinlein was plainly on the side of the guy who had refused to have his brain returned to normal. He tells this glorious story about how this guy managed to triumph over all sorts of adverse conditions in this perfectly awful state of nature." | ||
was about somebody who chose to go in. What annoyed me about it – and it would annoy you, too, I think – was that Heinlein was plainly on the side of the guy who had refused to have his brain returned to normal. He tells this glorious story about how this guy managed to triumph over all sorts of adverse conditions in this perfectly awful state of nature." | |||
Paul stops to think about this for a moment. | Paul stops to think about this for a moment. | ||
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"You and I have a confidence that most people lack," he says to Pat. "We think we can continue to be liberals and still move this forward." | "You and I have a confidence that most people lack," he says to Pat. "We think we can continue to be liberals and still move this forward." | ||
"I’m not so sure," Pat says.< | "I’m not so sure," Pat says.</call> | ||
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