[MD] Intellectual activity

[aesuszynski]

Ham,

Just a few thoughts because I haven't had the time to dig....but I will.

"Platt, you come into the world as a blank slate, knowing nothing but a
> passing sense of discomfort at being separated from the tranquility of
> Oneness."

Oh the Blank Slate! I absolutely disagree with this concept. If we were 
actually blank slates we would stay blank slates. Instead we are born into 
this world  equiped to understand such things as the complexities of 
language and shortly thereafter actually participate in the conversation. 
Language alone requires  an array of innate talents such as understanding 
time, space and causality. And the reason we are so good at it is because it 
so essential to our species and because it is essential to our species it is 
innate.  I know you don't like the human mind compared to a robot's, but it 
would seem that the Blank Slate is closer to that notion than is 
evolutionary psychology.

The only way I could perhaps agree would be if you are refering to 
conception and even then I would question "the passing sense of discomfort".

How did I become in the last two days, an agnostic? I thought I was an 
athiest.

Alice