Doug,
Maybe Bush was elected in 2004, so that is once. He was selected in 2000.
O
Douglas Roberts wrote:
Günther,
One of the foremost historical reductionists (Descarte) twice
demonstrated blind egotism in his "Reductionist Duck" postulate, as
follows:
1) that reductionism did not apply to humans, and
2) that when applied to non-humans, the non-human could be reduced to
an automata.
I'm not sure which I find most disappointing: the fact of the egoism
amply demonstrated by this postulate, or the blind acceptance of it
by so many other modern "reductionists".
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, though. I mean after all, this
is the same gene pool (evolved 360 years) that elected George W. Bush
as our United States president.
Twice.
As to your question regarding a non-egoistic explanation:
recognition of the fact that we simply do not yet understand enough
about the complexities of organic intelligence to be making stupid,
simplistic reductionist claims about its nature would be a good start...
Cheers,
--Doug
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