[lbo-talk] SSRIs

Ted Winslow egwinslow at rogers.com
Mon Nov 21 09:30:31 PST 2005


Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


> I
> find it difficult to understand why people are so resistant to the
> idea that
> all our "higher" intellectual and affective states are in fact
> functions of
> the human brain chemistry. If it is not chemistry then what is
> it? Souls,
> spirits, and all that metaphysical mumbo jumbo? How can a rational
> person
> can seriously consider such hogwash that does not even have an
> empirical
> meaning?

On your metaphysical assumptions, it must (like these assumptions themselves, "empirical meaning", your difficulty in understanding, and your certainty that metaphysical assumptions inconsistent with your own are irrational "hogwash") a function of human brain chemistry.

Ted



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