Consciousness Archive

  • Norman Bates and the End of Time

    Norman Bates and the End of Time

    Posted on May 19, 2010 | 1 Comment
    Charles Brickdale suggests that Don Delillo's 'Point Omega' joins a major cultural trend in portraying contemporary civilisation as terminally exhausted.

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  • A Response to ‘The Delusion of Free Will’

    A Response to ‘The Delusion of Free Will’

    Posted on December 16, 2009 | 1 Comment
    What Mr Broderick says in his article (or rather, allows Madeleine Bunting to say in hers without any cross-examination) is that free will is an illusion, and that humans are collective beings acting in a cosmos — that this justifies spiritual enquiry, and that Hitchens/Dawkins et al. are nasty for attacking 'god' as the vicious god of the Old Testament when 'god' is just a word used to describe the "infinite and transcendent merging of the individualised sense of awareness with the wider dimension".

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  • The Delusion of Free Will

    The Delusion of Free Will

    Posted on September 7, 2009 | 2 Comments
    Before it gets forgotten, here’s an article by Madeleine Bunting from last Monday’s Guardian. I want to draw attention to it because it is an instance of a mainstream article touching on an obvious fact that almost the entire human race is in denial of, especially the western intelligentsia, and most pertinently secular rationalists.

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