Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-12-2008

[andrewducker]

• Why do we believe?
  Fascinating piece looking at the evidence that human beings come into the world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena, and they they do so as an incidental by-product of cognitive functioning gone awry. Highly Recommended.
  (tags: religion philosophy psychology science)
• The State of the Web - Summer 2008
  Very funny image. Especially the bit about the internet being under attack
  (tags: 2008 web2.0 funny art internet)

Comments

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

How far is there a common ground between meaningfulness and intentionality? I'm thinking of something like 'fire burns' - making the constant meaningful connection between fire and burns probably matters more in terms of continued well-being than whether the fire burns because god intended it to do so or other explanation.

We - i.e. adults with a rational, scientific type world view - might still refer to the 'intentionality' of objects even as a vestige, as with the dumb computer that doesn't do what I tell it to, or resistentialism.

[andrewducker]

How far is there a common ground between meaningfulness and intentionality? I'm thinking of something like 'fire burns' - making the constant meaningful connection between fire and burns probably matters more in terms of continued well-being than whether the fire burns because god intended it to do so or other explanation.

Absolutely - but the point of the article was that children, worldwide, ascribe intentionality to everything, whether it has it or not. And a lot of people do carry that forward - hence ideas like karma, animism, etc.