Yes We Have A Soul But It's

Isn't It True That Whatever Isn't Determined By Our Genes Must Be Determined By Our Environment? What Else Is There? There's Nature And There's Nurture. Is There Also Some X, Some Further Contributor To What We Are? There's Chance. Luck. This Extra Ingredient Is Important But Doesn't Have To Come From The Quantum Bowels Of Our Atoms Or From Some Distant Star. It Is All Around Us In The Causeless Coin-flipping Of Our Noisy World, Automatically Filling In The Gaps Of Specification Left Unfixed By Our Genes, And Unfixed By Salient Causes In Our Environment.

Some Cultural Phenomena Bear A Striking Resemblance To The Cells Of Cell Biology, Actively Preserving Themselves In Their Social Environments, Finding The Nutrients They Need And Fending Off The Causes Of Their Dissolution.

There’s Simply No Polite Way To Tell People They’ve Dedicated Their Lives To An Illusion.

Human Freedom Is Not An Illusion; It Is An Objective Phenomenon, Distinct From All Other Biological Conditions And Found In Only One Species - Us.

If The History Of Resistance To Darwinian Thinking Is A Good Measure, We Can Expect That Long Into The Future, Long After Every Triumph Of Human Thought Has Been Matched Or Surpassed By 'mere Machines,' There Will Still Be Thinkers Who Insist That The Human Mind Works In Mysterious Ways That No Science Can Comprehend.