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Are humans just complex biochemical machines, mere physical parts of a causally closed materialist universe? Are we approaching the so-called «Singularity» when human consciousness can (and will) be downloaded into computers? Or is there more to the human person–something that might be known as soul or spirit? As this book makes clear, the answers to these questions have profound implications to topics such as heroism, creativity, ecology, and the possibility of reason and science. In exploring this important topic, Dickerson engages the ideas of some well-known twentieth- and twenty-first-century espousers of physicalism, including philosopher Daniel Dennett (Consciousness Explained), biologist Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion), futurist-engineer Raymond Kurzweil (The Age of Spiritual Machines), psychologist B. F. Skinner (Beyond Freedom and Dignity), and mathematician-philosopher Bertrand Russell (Why I Am Not a Christian). Through a careful reading of their works, Dickerson not only provides a five-fold critique of physicalism, but also offers a Christian alternative in the form of «integrative dualism,» which affirms the existence of both a physical and spiritual reality without diminishing the goodness or importance of either, and acknowledges that humans are spiritual as well as bodily persons.

Полный вариант заголовка: «Theorie des machines simples en ayant egard au frottement de leurs parties et a la roideur des cordages / par C. A. Coulomb».

Полный вариант заголовка: «A treatise on spinning machinery : Illustrated with plans of different machines made use of in that art : from the spindle and distaff of the ancients to the machines which have been invented or improved by the moderns : with some preliminary observations, tending to mshew that the arts of spinning, weaving, and sewing, were invented by the ingenuity of females : and a postskript, including an interesting account of the mode of spinning yarn in Ireland / By Andrew Gray».