Schematas Quotes

“Everything Sam Harris says comes from the empiricist, materialist, atheistic, scientific perspective. Therefore, every single conclusion he arrives at can be completely reinterpreted from a rationalist, idealist, religious, spiritual, mathematical perspective. Absolutely nothing he says about ultimate reality is true. That’s what happens when you’re a Sophist rather than a Philosopher.”
― Mike Hockney, The Sam Harris Delusion

“The entire basis of science is to find ways to deny meaning. What is Darwinism? It’s how to replace a designed universe with a random, purposeless universe that evolves to no end. What is the Multiverse? It’s a way to avoid explaining this universe by asserting that every random universe is possible. What is indeterministic “wavefunction collapse”? It’s a way to avoid explaining causation and determinism. What is the claim that free will is illusory? It’s a way to avoid explaining subjective agency, avoid explaining the autonomous mind – the soul. There are no “innocent” theories in science. All of them are ideologically, dogmatically, paradigmatically designed to deny idealism, rationalism and any hint of religion. There is not a single scientific theory that is not wholly predicated on the denial of idealism, rationalism and religion. You would not be allowed to be a scientist if you ever openly advanced any idealist, rationalist or religious arguments. If you did, you would be fired, or marginalised, or called a crank. Your funding would definitely be cut.”
― Mike Hockney, The Sam Harris Delusion