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This was actually recorded before a couple of the most recent podcasts, at a point when I was considering doing uniquely YouTube videos too, of which this was to be one. But given the subject matter it makes sense to include it in this series on the Mind, and the GAP that exists between what we actually know about it versus what our pseudo-intellectual class says they know about it... a gap which hides the REAL gap, which is the gap between the human mind and EVERY other thing in the universe.

Anyway, Part 10 coming very very soon. We're picking up steam again. Love you guys that listen. Thanks for letting me talk!

I've been telling you that the whole effort is to change society's conception of itself, by changing the human person's conception of himself. They're not even trying to hide it anymore.

Finally, the clip.

This is the second part of our "deep dive" regarding the impossibility of the mind being the brain. In the first part we saw that the supposed "mind/body problem" that "The Story" suggests was the reason for intellectuals leaving behind the religious picture of the world -- a world composed of both material and immaterial things -- turns out in fact to be NO problem at all once it is analyzed. In this part, we now see how NO materialistic theory of the mind, could ever work... ever. And we do so by looking closely at what happens when Charles Darwin, or something like him, falls down the stairs.

A True Story about the Falsity of "The Story".

Part 4 of the series "Mind, the Gap"

You will not understand this new, current phase of the culture war, which is quickly becoming a civil war, unless you understand the role that "Naturalism" played for the Left in advancing their side of the culture war. Upon examination, every issue debated in the culture war(s) turns out to ultimately resolve into a debate about whether things have "natures" or not. It is the nature of a thing that determines what kind of thing a thing is, and thus what it is okay, and not okay, to do to it. What is the nature of human personhood? Does a fetus have that nature? (Or is it just a "clump of cells")? Does an elderly person with a terminal illness share that nature? If they do, then it is wrong to kill fetuses and elderly people, because it's wrong to kill human persons. The debate about abortion and euthanasia is a debate about the "nature" of personhood. Likewise the debate about gay marriage is a debate about the "nature" or marriage. Likewise the debate about trans-sexualism is a debate about the "nature" or gender. Is it the same as biological sex, or something different? ALL of the culture war debates, the hot-button "moral" issues, are really, at bottom, "metaphysical" issues, because they are really debates about the NATURE of things, and whether such a nature exists.

This is why the metaphysical position called Naturalism is so important to to the Left (though they rarely even acknowledge its existence). Because Naturalism makes NONSENSE of the notion of anything having a definite nature. Rather, under Naturalism, everything is fluid (think "gender-fluid"). And it is the fact that Naturalism does this to the notion of natures that makes it so useful to the Left. Because then, all that they have to do is treat Naturalism like it is Science (it's not, as the analogy of the Metal Detector has shown) and then accuse you of being anti-science when you oppose their (the Left's) moral/political agenda... which just happens to be to change the NATURE of society... by convincing everyone IN society that nothing really has a definite nature.

And once you understand what Naturalism is, how it is different than Science, you can then understand what "Neuropolitics" is. And you HAVE to understand what Neuropolitics is, because the Left has now abandoned the debates of the culture war. They don't want to debate anymore. They have a new tactic. It is Neuropolitics. And it's about you, and why you think what you think, and why what you think doesn't matter one bit to what direction we should ultimately head socially and politically. Please listen.

Pat 2 of the "Mind, the Gap" series