If you view the world from Naturalism you look at reality as a unified whole. Everything is shaped through physical, biological, psychological, social and environmental processes. Everything in this world is interconnected. It is one great chain connected by cause and effect. In Naturalism, everything can and will be explained through science. If something is to be held as true it must be scrutinized and verified through scientific experimentation.In this world science reigns supreme.
The theory of naturalism denounces human freedom. In this theory your genes are the supreme rulers of who you are. Your genes determine your reality!! As a result all choices you will make have been genetically predetermined and freedom is a delusion. Your emotions, feelings of love, loyalty, etc can be best explained as a neural state. If you do bad things you can blame it on your "genetic code". Our "Actions" occur because of our Brain processes. In the end, Naturalism denies the possibility of ethics and morality.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is viewed as branch of Naturalism. Philosophers have argued that the two disciplines have much in common. Both areas look at and examine the human brain and its neural networks. AI researchers try to imitate brain neural networks in order to achieve greater results in computer development. It is the researchers hope to replicate human cognitive states thus achieving true AI. In either case, "actions" can be explained as an algorithm or a genetic code. Once again, the essence of freedom is being questioned!
"The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation."
Phillip E. Johnson
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
Frued
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No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
Frued
I would like to start by saying, naturalism is not "the way things really are." The impression that science has validated naturalism is a metaphysical illusion. The confusion has started with the enterprise of historical science that scientific picture of the history of the Cosmos from the big bang to the appearance of human consciousness, is nothing more then the metaphysical naturalists as the application of their philosophy to cosmic history. All science is an illusion, everyday life is an illusion merely fabricated by the architects we call men. Emotions, justice, freedom and peace are a science that is an illusion, vagaries of perception, temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. Although, only a human mind could invent something as insipid as an illusions.
naturalism is probably the most widely held philosphy. naturalism understands the material universe as a unified system.
a interesting concept for philosophy but not something I would choose to followa belief in
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