Gods, Genes, Conscience: August Dialogues

Dear Readers: Please feel free to review the Contents of my book and biography in Gods, Genes, Conscience (iUniverse.com worldwide release 2006); and/or here (Google Books Search 2007) or here (Amazon.com Look Inside 2008). A list of global booksellers near you can be found here. Thank you all for scrutinizing!

Immediate Posting: The following Commentaries (developing thinkings) were made in response to the concerned articles, sources, and dates listed in August 2010, so as to promote the Good Dialogues worldwide. Thank you all for reading and scrutinizing!

• [NB: I'm in preparation of writing 2 books Decoding Scientism and Consciousness & the Subconscious (works in progress since July 2007), so my future Dialogues worldwide would not be engaged, and posted herein, as often as I had been over the past 4 years or so.]
• 1) Realisms: meaning and atheism (Part 4) -- RE: “Food for thought” on Realisms -- Pursuing a modern definition (debate) of realisms, truths, meanings, atheisms, etc!? (TalkingPhilosophyUK; August 8)
• 2) Realisms: meaning and atheism (Part 4) -- RE: More analysis on Berkeley’s realism/idealism!? (TalkingPhilosophyUK; August 10)
• 3) Harvard morality researcher investigated for scientific misconduct -- RE: Scientific misconducts at Harvard!? -- No surprises here though! (NatureBlogsUK; August 11)
• 4) Updated: This Hauser thing is getting hard to watch -- RE: Excellent report and analysis -- devoid of any scientist-bias syndrome in modern journalism -- especially in “neuroscience-culture” report today and beyond!? (NeuronCultureUSA; August 21)

Gods, Genes, Conscience: July Dialogues

Dear Readers: Please feel free to review the Contents of my book and biography in Gods, Genes, Conscience (iUniverse.com worldwide release 2006); and/or here (Google Books Search 2007) or here (Amazon.com Look Inside 2008). A list of global booksellers near you can be found here. Thank you all for scrutinizing!

Immediate Posting: The following Commentaries (developing thinkings) were made in response to the concerned articles, sources, and dates listed in July 2010, so as to promote the Good Dialogues worldwide. Thank you all for reading and scrutinizing!

• [NB: I'm in preparation of writing 2 books Decoding Scientism and Consciousness & the Subconscious (works in progress since July 2007), so my future Dialogues worldwide would not be engaged, and posted herein, as often as I had been over the past 4 years or so.]
• 1) Profile: Wilhelm Dilthey -- RE: Revisiting Dilthey, Darwin, Mendel, et al -- How neo-Darwinists have betrayed Darwinism and Mendelism by their reductionist “Modern Synthesis” of “geneticism” or “evolutionism” par excellence of the 20th century -- in the English “science-philosophy” literature today and beyond!? (PhilosophyPressUK; July 2)

Gods, Genes, Conscience: June Dialogues

Dear Readers: Please feel free to review the Contents of my book and biography in Gods, Genes, Conscience (iUniverse.com worldwide release 2006); and/or here (Google Books Search 2007) or here (Amazon.com Look Inside 2008). A list of global booksellers near you can be found here. Thank you all for scrutinizing!

Immediate Posting: The following Commentaries (developing thinkings) were made in response to the concerned articles, sources, and dates listed in June 2010, so as to promote the Good Dialogues worldwide. Thank you all for reading and scrutinizing!

• [NB: I'm in preparation of writing 2 books Decoding Scientism and Consciousness & the Subconscious (works in progress since July 2007), so my future Dialogues worldwide would not be engaged, and posted herein, as often as I had been over the past 4 years or so.]
• 1) Journal of unpublication -- RE: Good thinking MsPhD! (YoungFemaleScientistUSA; June 1)
• 2) The Evolutionary Calculus of Depression -- RE: Let’s not dictate Psychiatry by neo-Darwinism -- Evolutionary geneticism vs. Clinical diagnosis, alleviation, of Depression (distresses mental, spiritual, or otherwise)!? (PsychiatricTimesUSA; June 3)

Gods, Genes, Conscience: May Dialogues

Dear Readers: Please feel free to review the Contents of my book and biography in Gods, Genes, Conscience (iUniverse.com worldwide release 2006); and/or here (Google Books Search 2007) or here (Amazon.com Look Inside 2008). A list of global booksellers near you can be found here. Thank you all for scrutinizing!

Immediate Posting: The following Commentaries (developing thinkings) were made in response to the concerned articles, sources, and dates listed in May 2010, so as to promote the Good Dialogues worldwide. Thank you all for reading and scrutinizing!

• [NB: I'm in preparation of writing 2 books Decoding Scientism and Consciousness & the Subconscious (works in progress since July 2007), so my future Dialogues worldwide would not be engaged, and posted herein, as often as I had been over the past 4 years or so.]
• 1) My philosophy: Susan Blackmore -- RE: Where is the beef (or Blackmore's science or philosophy)? -- None whatsoever! (PhilosophyPressUK; May 1)
• 2) Sizing up the 'synthetic cell' -- RE: Congratulations Nature! (NatureNewsUK; May 21)
• 3) Is Charles Taylor the world’s most important philosopher? -- RE: Pinker is definitely an American psycholinguist! (TalkingPhilosophyUK; May 25)
• 4) Promising therapy scuttled by alleged misconduct -- RE: Fraudulent scientific research and misconduct at Mayo!? (NatureBlogsUK; May 26)
• 5) Eight retractions...so far -- RE: Good thinking MsPhD! (DrugMonkeyUSA; May 28)

Gods, Genes, Conscience: April Dialogues

Dear Readers: Please feel free to review the Contents of my book and biography in Gods, Genes, Conscience (iUniverse.com worldwide release 2006); and/or here (Google Books Search 2007) or here (Amazon.com Look Inside 2008). A list of global booksellers near you can be found here. Thank you all for scrutinizing!

Immediate Posting: The following Commentaries (developing thinkings) were made in response to the concerned articles, sources, and dates listed in April 2010, so as to promote the Good Dialogues worldwide. Thank you all for reading and scrutinizing!

• [NB: I'm in preparation of writing 2 books Decoding Scientism and Consciousness & the Subconscious (works in progress since July 2007), so my future Dialogues worldwide would not be engaged, and posted herein, as often as I had been over the past 4 years or so.]
• 1) Harris versus Dawkins, modern day Euthyphro dilemma -- RE: Nihilist-atheism vs. Atheisms of sages!? (SanFranciscoApologeticsExaminer; April 1)
• 2) Sam Harris' forthcoming Moral Landscape 'decides' objective morality -- RE: Eugene vs. Maryann!? (SanFranciscoApologeticsExaminer; April 1)
• 3) Closing thoughts from a heretic -- RE: A heretic among the neo-atheists!? (RadionationalBlogsAU; April 5) [where my comment is still listed as "comment pending approval" -- since it's short, let me just post a file copy of which en masse herein under for readers' convenience and scrutiny (as I thought the blogs therein are excellent reading & analysis of the current "science & religion" issues worldwide):

[RE: A heretic among the neo-atheists!?

Well done, Chris Mulherin!

However, I think the problem is that the infallible "high priest" of the so-called "neo-atheism" Richard Dawkins, will never concede his "irrationalism" in science and religion issues to the truthful philosophical and scientific arguments of the issues -- such as one that your argued above -- since the publication of his 1976 pseudoscientific pseudo-genetic book The Selfish Gene as one review that I recently presented here: http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=6365&view=findpost&p=445599 "Let's begin the Dialogue and Reconciliation of Science and Religion Now! -- RE: Darwin Year in review: The folly of neo-Darwinism & Dawkinsism (or Darwinism as atheism fallacy) -- May the real McCoys (both the scientific and critical thinkings in biology) prevail in the 21st century and beyond!?" (PhysForumEU; February 1); and here: "Harris versus Dawkins, modern day Euthyphro dilemma -- RE: Nihilist-atheism vs. Atheisms of sages!?" (SanFranciscoApologeticsExaminer; April 1).

[PS: This is my first post here, so let me try various formatting styles, to see if anyone of them will be appropriate for this web platform!?]

Best wishes, Mong 4/5/10usct3:02p; practical science-philosophy critic; author "Decoding Scientism" and "Consciousness & the Subconscious" (works in progress since July 2007), Gods, Genes, Conscience (iUniverse; 2006) and Gods, Genes, Conscience: Global Dialogues Now (blogging avidly since 2006).]

• 4) Overrated Noam Chomsky -- RE: Overrated Chomsky? -- Absolutely! (StandpointMagUK; April 12)
• 5) Underrated Raymond Tallis -- RE: Underrated Tallis? -- An aspiring modern philosopher of ME (Mind & Emotion, including morality & ethics)!? (StandpointMagUK; April 14)
• 6) Ray Tallis on Consciousness -- RE: Deciphering Tallis' writing on consciousness!? (NeurologicaBlogUSA; April 16)

Gods, Genes, Conscience: March Dialogues

Dear Readers: Please feel free to review the Contents of my book and biography in Gods, Genes, Conscience (iUniverse.com worldwide release 2006); and/or here (Google Books Search 2007) or here (Amazon.com Look Inside 2008). A list of global booksellers near you can be found here. Thank you all for scrutinizing!

Immediate Posting: The following Commentaries (developing thinkings) were made in response to the concerned articles, sources, and dates listed in March 2010, so as to promote the Good Dialogues worldwide. Thank you all for reading and scrutinizing!

• [NB: I'm in preparation of writing 2 books Decoding Scientism and Consciousness & the Subconscious (works in progress since July 2007), so my future Dialogues worldwide would not be engaged, and posted herein, as often as I had been over the past 4 years or so.]
• 1) Armchair Skeptics -- RE: Armchair Skepticism vs. Neo-Darwinism!? (SkepticblogUSA; March 4)
• 2) Hiding place for HIV revealed -- RE: HIV is 'cleverer' than we could think!? (NatureNewsUK; March 10)
• 3) Darwin’s Conscious -- RE: Revisiting Darwinism: Somatic ontogeny vs. Intellectual ontogeny!? (NewScientistUK; March 12) [where my opposing view was deleted after 4 days of posting -- since my comment was short, let me just post a file copy of which en masse herein under for readers' convenience and scrutiny (with edits in red):

[RE: Revisiting Darwinism: Somatic ontogeny vs. Intellectual ontogeny!?

Reg Morrison muses above that: Charles Darwin, 170 years ago, scribbled the following asides in his notes: "Thought, however unintelligible it may be, seems as much a function of organ, as bile of liver," and "This view should teach one profound humility, no one deserves credit for anything, nor ought one to blame others."

And Morrison further concluded that "Sadly, this fact-based proposition is as unpalatable now as when Darwin originally noted it."

Whereas I must disagree with Morrison's assessment of the young Darwin's musing on 'thought' -- or our intellectual ontogeny -- was a 'fact-based' proposition. On the contrary, if Darwin had had pursued 'medicine' as a profession, he would have had not equated the function or 'thought process' of our brain, with the 'bile secretion' of our liver, as Morrison quoted above.

In fact, over 20 years later, Darwin did correct himself by clearly differentiating his own naturalist work of the somatic ontogeny of species, from the intellectual ontogeny work of other scholars -- like that of his contemporary polymath Herbert Spencer -- as he deftly concluded in his then masterpiece treatise 'On the Origin of Species' that "In the future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on the foundation already well laid by Mr Herbert Spencer, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history [as a matter of humanism or our intellectual ontogeny].

As such Darwin was indeed conscious; and conscientious too, about his own naturalist work and scientific scholarship; especially on his taxonomy-based naturalism vs. others’ sociology or ideology-based psychology -- or “modern population geneticism” as one that has had been propagated by the neo-Darwinists since the 1940s, as the Modern Synthesis, that I recently identified here: “What Darwin Got Wrong” by Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini -- RE: Classical Darwinism vs. neo-Darwinism: What Fodor, et al got wrong!? (GuardianUK; February 14).

Best wishes, Mong 3/12/10usct3:27p; practical science-philosophy critic; author "Decoding Scientism" and "Consciousness & the Subconscious" (works in progress since July 2007), "Gods, Genes, Conscience" (2006: http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0595379907 ) and "Gods, Genes, Conscience: Global Dialogues Now" (blogging avidly since 2006: http://www2.blogger.com/profile/18303146609950569778 ).]

• 4) Coyne just doesn’t get it -- RE: Point of clarification: Not all scientists/philosophers are neo-Darwinists/sophists! (DarwinianaUSA[?]; March 22)
• 5) Harris versus Dawkins, modern day Euthyphro dilemma -- RE: Harris vs. Dawkins!? (SanFranciscoApologeticsExaminer; March 24)

Gods, Genes, Conscience: February Dialogues

Dear Readers: Please feel free to review the Contents of my book and biography in Gods, Genes, Conscience (iUniverse.com worldwide release 2006); and/or here (Google Books Search 2007) or here (Amazon.com Look Inside 2008). A list of global booksellers near you can be found here. Thank you all for scrutinizing!

Immediate Posting: The following Commentaries (developing thinkings) were made in response to the concerned articles, sources, and dates listed in February 2010, so as to promote the Good Dialogues worldwide. Thank you all for reading and scrutinizing!

• [NB: I'm in preparation of writing 2 books Decoding Scientism and Consciousness & the Subconscious (works in progress since July 2007), so my future Dialogues worldwide would not be engaged, and posted herein, as often as I had been over the past 4 years or so.]
• 1) Let's begin the Dialogue and Reconciliation of Science and Religion Now! -- RE: Darwin Year in review: The folly of neo-Darwinism & Dawkinsism (or Darwinism as atheism fallacy) -- May the real McCoys (both the scientific and critical thinkings in biology) prevail in the 21st century and beyond!? (PhysForumEU; February 1)
• 2) "My hero!" -- RE: But, Richard Dawkins, et al have made him God!? (TheMermaid’sTaleUSA; February 2)
• 3) "What Darwin Got Wrong" by Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli Palmarini -- RE: Kudos to Midgley’s analysis: Classical Darwinism (1) vs. neo-Darwinism (0)! (GuardianUK; February 7)
• 4) Autism risk higher for older mothers -- RE: Autism research requires a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach!? (NatureBlogsUK; February 9)
• 5) Brain surgery boosts spirituality -- RE: Sociopathy vs. spirituality!? (NatureNewsUK; February 11)
• 6) Drug exec to oversee research at Harvard Medical School -- RE: Yes, this new executive position is absolutely necessary at HMS! (NatureBlogsUK; February 12)
• 7) “What Darwin Got Wrong” by Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli Palmarini -- RE: Classical Darwinism vs. neo-Darwinism: What Fodor, et al got wrong!? (GuardianUK; February 14)