tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696956101824934089.post2647214092401296492..comments2024-03-12T16:53:52.795-04:00Comments on Crypto-Catholic Libertine: Another threadJules Aiméhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08262535377454858987noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696956101824934089.post-59227216856685723702010-07-14T14:47:09.116-04:002010-07-14T14:47:09.116-04:00I hope you can open this, it raises questions that...I hope you can open this, it raises questions that are directly related to what we've been discussing about free will.<br /><br />HEALTH | July 13, 2010 <br />Mind: Accepting That Good Parents May Plant Bad Seeds <br />By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D. <br />We marvel at the resilient child who survives the most toxic parents, yet the converse - the notion that some children might be the bad seeds of more or less decent parents - is hard to take. <br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/health/13mind.html?emc=eta1BobinCThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07349641483981235572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696956101824934089.post-16976374025780555892010-07-14T11:48:01.538-04:002010-07-14T11:48:01.538-04:00Maybe the issue isn't so much whether or not w...Maybe the issue isn't so much whether or not we have free will but rather if we do have free will a) where it emanates from (nature or nurture) and b) are the choices we make always under our conscious awareness or control. I think those questions are more to the point. Today we have the technology to not only see inside the living brain but--more importantly--to measure how the various parts of the brain respond to different types of stimuli in various ways, which then become manifest in people's actions and even emotions. The implications of this are staggering and, like it or not, we are in a brave new world. Newton, Darwin, and Wittgenstein did not have the tools we have today, so I don't think a comparison to them is valid. I think the task for people of faith--I mean true people of faith like me and you, not the ones in Rome-- is to try to figure out how the Gospel can be applied and understood in light of these new findings. I would put Freud in the same category as Aquinas and Augustine--all three got some things right, but they got a lot wrong too.BobinCThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07349641483981235572noreply@blogger.com