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In the work that inspired The Matrix movies, Baudrillard says we are already living inside a hyperreal simulation entirely walled off from reality. This simulation isn’t simply virtual as it is in The Matrix but penetrates every corner of our postmodern civilisation
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Patricia Churchland argues that brain science does not undermine free will or moral responsibility. A decision without any causal antecedents would not be a responsible decision. A responsible decision requires deliberation. The brain is capable of such deliberation.
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Søren Kierkegaard argued that the Modern age isn't just mass-producing products — it is mass-producing people. Kierkegaard's philosophical response was Christian Existentialism — a personal, truly individual engagement with oneself, life and God
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Philip Kitcher argues that secular humanism should distance itself from New Atheism. Religion is a source of community and inspiration to many. Religion is harmful - and incompatible with humanism - only when it is used as a conversation-stopper in moral debates.
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Do no conform: Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay Self-Reliance argues that we should strive for greatness and self-reliance rather than the "meanness" of conforming to the society's dead institutions saying that "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind"
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