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Interview with atheist and Christian debunker John Loftus examines the philosophy of atheism.
Alex Tsakiris: When we falsify this idea that you are a “biological robot”, and accept that’s absurd, and once we get past the idea that consciousness ends at death, which again, that’s where the evidence points, then a lot of things start falling differently in terms of how I orient myself to the world, how I orient myself to other people, how I orient myself to morals, purpose, meaning in life.
You are not a biological robot, John.
John Loftus: Okay. I disagree. I’ve said why.
Alex Tsakiris: You say, “I am a biological robot. I am going to stand by that.” Right? That’s what you’re saying?
John Loftus: Well, there’s no evidence for invisible beings, right? Entities.
Alex Tsakiris: But you, as you live your life, you live your life like a biological robot?
John Loftus: Everybody does. That’s all there is.
Alex Tsakiris: Okay.
John Loftus: Well, you have to look into the philosophical quandaries with trying to distinguish between mind and body. I mean, I taught the Introduction to Philosophy classes that you would probably be interested in looking at how they’ve tried to relate the mind and the body. They just really can’t do it. It’s really ludicrous to see how they do that.
Published on November 27, 2013