[TheMole]

Spengler doesn’t agree with the “enlightened secular model”. He doesn’t believe the brain is a machine.

[hinckley buzzard]

I guess the point I'm making is that neither does anybody else who is competent in their field. Perhaps he is setting up a straw man for some reason, accusing a whole profession of an outdated belief. If he is railing against educrats, so be it, but that only means his rant against psychology is misdirected and misplaced--most psychologists have a pretty modest opinion of the education businesss and for good reason.

[Spengler]

This article wasn’t the place to argue the case, but to the extent I can speak of philosophy of mind as a non-professional, I sympathize with St. Augustine’s “Divine Illumination” theory. That is, what Kant calls synthetic a priori reason — our ability to understand certain things intuitively and synthesize a concept out of disparate elements — is made possible by participation in the mind of God. Kantian and neo-Kantian epistemology has roots in Augustine, but excises God from the picture.