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Eliminative materialism

Eliminative materialism, also referred to as philosophical illiteracy or p-zombification, posits that common understanding of mental/subjective phenomena is false, taking drastic steps when it comes to the mind-body issue. Some positions within eliminative materialism argue that some or even all mental states do not exist.Eliminative Materialism. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. It is a form of materialism. Duh. Analytical philosopher is eliminativist about propositional attitudes such as beliefs,Churchland, Patricia; Churchland, Paul (1998). On the contrary : critical essays, 1987-1997. MIT Press. . OCLC 42328879. whilst Daniel Dennett and are eliminativist about qualia such as pain and emotions.Ramsey, William, "Eliminative Materialism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2008 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2008/entries/materialism-eliminative/> Section 4.2.Dennett, D. (1988) "Quining Qualia" in: Marcel, A and Bisiach, E (eds), Consciousness in Contemporary Science, 42-77. New York, Oxford University Press.
==Argumentation==
If this seems self-refuting, as Paul Boghossian argued,Boghossian, P. (1990). "The Status of Content."Philosophical Review. 99: 157-84.Boghossian, P. (1991). "The Status of Content Revisited." Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. 71: 264-78. as well as anti-axiomatic, it's because it is, although eliminativists can respond to this by saying intuitive ideas can be wrong.Churchland, P.M. and Churcland, P. S. (1998). Intertheoretic Reduction: A Neuroscientist's Field Guide. On the Contrary Critical Essays, 1987-1997. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press: 65-79. When an eliminative materialist questions the existence of mind, what are they doing? To the eliminative materialist, there is neurons and the illusion of mind. The question now is how mind and “illusion of mind” are different. Where is the illusion? What is an illusion? This has been criticized by William G. Lycan.Lycan, W. "A Particularly Compelling Refutation of Eliminative Materialism" ((online)). Retrieved Sept. 26, 2006. While a dualist would say mind cannot be explained by physicalistic means at this time, therefore ghosts live in the pineal gland, an eliminative materialist would say mind cannot be explained by physicalistic means, therefore mind doesn’t exist. The half-assing eliminators who eliminate only some mental characteristics but not others are very arbitrary in their selections. "Hmmm, should I pick beliefs, desires, emotions, feelings, thoughts, identities, goat hair, or knowledge? So many choices!"
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Elisabet Sahtouris

Elisabet Sahtouris is a Greek-American evolutionary biologist and author known for promoting a radical version of the Gaia hypothesis.
==Biography==
Sahtouris is the author of a book titled Earthdance: Living Systems in EvolutionEarthDance by Elisabet Sahtouris which argues that the earth should be viewed as a living system. She was influenced by the Gaia hypothesis of and is critical of what she terms "mechanical science." She also rejects reductionism which she believes should be replaced with "holistic" science.Foreword to her book EarthDanceFrom Mechanics to Organics: An Interview with Elisabet Sahtouris By Scott London
According to Sahtouris life has always existed and that life can not come from "non-life". She has written that the entire cosmos is alive and a self-organizing living system. She has also proposed a more radical version of the Gaia hypothesis by claiming Gaia itself has consciousness and intelligence. Sahtouris also proposes a version of panpsychism where everything including all matter has consciousness. She also writes that cells have consciousness and can direct evolution.Elisabet Sahtouris, interviewed by SM for MkzdK, Part One According to Sahtouris:
In her book Biology Revisioned and more recent articles Sahtouris has advocated the concept of Autopoiesis (continuous self-creation) which she believes is the best way to define life as everything from "galaxies, stars, planets, organisms, cells and molecules" all fit this definition and that this implies that life is the fundamental process of the cosmos which is a "self-creating living whole with self-creating living components in co-creative interaction." She has also written that consciousness has existed before matter and that it is fundamental in the cosmos.Prologue to a New Model of a Living Universe
==Reception==
Even though Sahtouris is a well qualified scientist, in some of her books she has attempted to mix spirituality and religious themes with biology, which opens her to claims of promoting pseudoscience.Turning Crises Into Wisdom with Elisabet Sahtouris She is often supported by New agers and advocates of "PaGaian Cosmology".GAIA: Dynamic Place of BeingLiving By Design: Principles for Designing Earth Communities Advocates of "Green spirituality" and radical environmentalism also support her books.Sustainability and Gaia
Sahtouris is also a feminist who believes that the Gaia earth is an "earth Goddess" and that many humans have become disconnected from it. She is a holist and believes all science should be based on a holistic outlook without any form of reductionism and blames recent western science for ignoring the holistic outlook of the ancients.Earth as Gaia, A Living Goddess Review of Gaia:The Human Journey from Chaos to Cosmos
==External links==
*Life Web by Elisabet Sahtouris
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Elisha

Elisha (or Eliseus/Alyasa depending on how you translate) was a bald prophet from the Old Testament and the heir to the post of Elijah. He features in both 1 and 2 Kings.
Elisha is a Saint in a number of Churches, and his feast day is the 14th (Julian calendar) of June for the Eastern Orthodox Church.
== Instructive moral ==
Never call anyone a slaphead or the like. Especially near some woods. The local bears might be constipated, and therefore tetchy.
==External links==
*A re-enactment of 2 Kings 2:23-24 Video
*A cartoon of 2 Kings 2:23-24
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Elitism

Elitism is the perpetuation of the values of an "elite."
"Elite" can refer to two groups: 
#Those who want to maintain a self-perpetuating oligarchy's social/political/economic domination.
#The small group consisting of the best of the best in a given field.
A depressingly large number of people cannot distinguish between the two meanings, probably due to anti-intellectualism.
As the term is most often used, it is a silly misnomer. When somebody calls someone else an "elitist", it means that the accuser views the accused as being "high and mighty", "snobbish", or generally having a holier-than-thou attitude (see also yuppie). It's also often attached to the term "liberal" (i.e. "those liberal elitists want to take away my guns and make my kids gay"). In reality, most people who are termed "elitists" are actually very well-educated and more knowledgeable about the subject in question than an average Joe. In this sense, it is also used as a snarl word by anti-intellectuals.
However, some people prefer to act like complete dicks, and have a superiority complex without actually having any formal basis to back it up (see Adolf Hitler). These people are assholes rather than elitists, because being termed an "elitist" in the above context implies that you actually do have a legitimate reason to be part of the elite.
Aside from all that, elitism can also refer to a group of people who consider their aligned cultural leanings to be superior based on subjective preference (leading to such irritating phenomena as fanboyism).
==Examples==
*Many people see medical doctors as elitists. This is because doctors spent 10-14 years learning what they do; they have a legitimate reason to act as part of the elite in regards to what they do. This is also true of scientists, lawyers, and space explorers.
*Rich people are often seen as elitist. This overlooks all the skill and ingenuity it takes to be born into wealth or get away with criminal behaviour or exploit employees.
==See also==
*Aristocracy - An oligarchic form of government based on (often hereditary) elitism.
*Asian values - An idea based on elitism.
*Dunning-Kruger effect - "The effect occurs where people fail to adequately assess their level of competence — or specifically, their incompetence — at a task and thus consider themselves much more competent than everyone else." - the page itself
*Populism
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Elizabeth Clare Prophet

Elizabeth Clare Profit</S> Prophet (April 8, 1939 – October 15, 2009) was the leader of the Church Universal and Triumphant (CUT). Following a New Age belief system influenced by theosophy and Alice Bailey, she gave public speeches of messages and alleged prophecies from "ascended masters" throughout the 1960s and 1970s, claimed the title of "Vicar of Christ" for herself, wrote several books, and began advocating survivalism as early as 1973. She prophesied global thermonuclear war would occur on March 15, 1990. By then many of her followers had joined her hunkering down in a compound in Montana near Yellowstone National Park waiting for Armageddon.The Sound of Doomsday in America: How a Cult Leader Made a Cherished Tape Freak ClassicIronically, another "prophet", Ramtha warned that Yellowstone would erupt soon. Scientists on the other hand believe that Yellowstone will not erupt for at least another 1000 years. After doomsday came and went with no nuclear war many disillusioned followers began drifting away and the CUT eventually sold most of its Montana property. Now deceased, a few hangers-on continue to disseminate her teachings through a group called Summit Lighthouse.
For her failed efforts at predicting the end of the world, she shared the 2011 Ig Nobel Prize for Mathematics with some other prophetic losers: Dorothy Martin, Pat Robertson, Lee Jang Rim, Credonia Mwerinde, and Harold Camping.Winners of the Ig® Nobel Prize
==Church Universal and Triumphant vs. Rock==
The CUT left an impressive audio and video record of their existence. Like many fringe Christian movements of the time, they leaped upon the rock-is-the-Devil trend. 
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Ellagic acid

Ellagic acid (2,3,7,8-tetrahydroxy-chromeno[5,4,3-cde]chromene-5,10-dione) is a natural antioxidant found in numerous fruits, nuts and vegetables.Ellagic Acid, sciencedirect.com.
It is also sold as a "food supplement" with claims of being effective against cancer,FDA slapping supplement pusher upside the head for claiming it cures cancer heart disease and other ailments. The FDA labels it a "Fake Cancer Cure Consumers Should Avoid".187 Fake Cancer "Cures" Consumers Should Avoid (US Food and Drug Administration) 
==So, about cancer==
There is no scientific evidence that ellagic acid is a cure or treatment for cancer.Ellagic acid, Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center. "Ellagic acid is found in many foods that are part of a healthy diet, but there is no evidence to support its use for cancer treatment." Studies to date have almost all been on cell cultures or animals. It actually shows slight promise, inhibiting growth of some tumours, and one cell culture study suggesting it may act against substances that help tumours form new blood vessels. In the only study so far on humans, it seemed to reduce the side effects of chemotherapy in prostate cancer, but did not actually slow disease progression or improve survival.
If you want to try this, some studies suggest you just eat foods containing it, e.g. a nonrandomized study of men with prostate cancer reported pomegranate juice as slowing the increase in blood level of prostate-specific antigen.Ellagic Acid (American Cancer Society)
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Ellen G. White

Ellen G. White (1827-1915) co-founded Seventh-day Adventism (SDA) in 1863. Some followers of her writings consider her a prophet - an opinion which makes it difficult for them to dispute/criticize her opinions. Her best-known books, The Great Controversy (1858), Steps to Christ (1892), and The Desire of Ages (1898), circulate widely, and the distribution of them is a core outreach of Adventism, thus they can often be had for free. The Great Controversy offers a Restorationist narrative of the apostasy and later restoration of the Christian Church, the key issue for White being the abandonment and later restoration of Saturday (or Sabbath-day) worship. The Desire of Ages is a long book on the person and life of Jesus, while Steps to Christ is a shorter evangelistic book. White also wrote on health matters and espoused vegetarianism, teetotalism, and exiting the cities to move to rural areas and become self-sufficient,See, for example, Country Living, a booklet compiling her writings on this subject. both for health reasons and because of her belief in the coming end times, perhaps within her lifetime. The back-to-the-land belief is a sort of forerunner to more recent survivalist practices of some Christians who believe the end times are imminent. Those who consider her a prophet take her visions of the end times seriously, including a vision of hers cited by believers as purportedly predicting 9/11.The September 11 World Trade Center Attacks. The Ellen White Research Project at truthorfables.net.
One can view White as the mother of Young Earth creationism (YEC), though not that many people noticed while she was alive.
Righting America at the Creation Museum by Susan L. Trollinger & William Vance Trollinger Jr. (2016) Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 1421419513. White proclaimed that YHWH constructed the Earth in 6 literal days, and furthermore that The Flood rearranged the geological record - key elements of YEC. A fellow-SDA member, published three books that helped popularize White's pronouncements: Outlines of Modern Christianity and Modern Science (1902), The Fundamentals of Geology (1913) and The New Geology (1923).
In addition to White's irrational obsession about a particular day of the week, her writings are filled with rants about sexuality, pornography, masturbation, and other examples of what she called "moral depravity".Ellen G. White, Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, Chapter 51—Moral Pollution.Ellen G. White, Testimonies on Sexual Behavior, Adultery, and Divorce, Chapter 17—Masturbation.Ellen G. White, Child Guidance, Section 16—Preserving Moral Integrity, Chapter 68—Prevalence of Corrupting Vices. White has been accused of plagiarizing contemporary sources in her writings about the ill-effects of masturbation and that she was merely reflecting the prevailing beliefs of her times.Robert L. Numbers, Prophetess of Health: A Study of Ellen G. White, 2008, p. 207-208. ISBN 0802803954.
==See also==
*National Sunday law
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Ellie Crystal

Ellie Crystal is a New Age mystic, notable for her appearance on The Daily Show segment "Evolution, Schmevolution".http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/aadnba/evolution--schmevolution---panel--edward-j--larson--william-a--dembski--ellie-crystal She is a bizarre New Age advocate who seems to be willing to believe pretty much everything.
==See also==
*Article of the Weak: Ancient Astronauts
==External links==
*Crystalinks - her homepage (warning: serious Timecube Law violations)
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Emication

The "theory" of Emication was a brainchild of Nils Heribert Nilsson (1883-1955), an early-20th century Swedish biologist. In his most voluminous work Synthetische ArtbildungNils Heribert-Nilsson, Synthetische Artbildung, vols. I and II, Grundlinien einer exakten Biologie, (1953) Verlag CWK Gleerup, Lund, Sweden, 1303 pp. ("Synthetic speciation"), he laid out his theory. summarizes the thesis of the elegantly printed, two-volume opus, as follows in a review for Science:
It's obvious that Heribert Nilsson either hadn't heard of the concept of continental drift, or he knew but doesn't accept it (nothing too uncommon in the 1950s). Instead, he invoked tremendous tidal waves "for the fact that many fossil floras, such as that of the London Clay, consist of species whose modern relatives live in tropical countries far removed from the site of deposition,"G. Ledyard Stebbins, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Dec. 1955, pp. 384-386 as G. Ledyard Stebbins writes in an article for The Quarterly Review of Biology in 1955. 
Thoroughly debunked is "Heribert-Nilsson's final line of 'evidence' against evolution consist[ing] of an attempt to criticise certain basic principles of genetics, particularly the linear order of the genes on the chromosomes," as quoted after Stebbins. 
So, there is something someone (i.e., the author himself) called a "scientific theory". And it's rubbish. No wonder that creationists take an interest in it — and no one else.
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Emil Silvestru

Emil Silvestru is a Young earth creationist geologist (with an actual PhD from ‘Babeş-Bolyai’ Universityhttp://creation.com/emil-silvestru) and He appears to be creationism's only karstologist, in fact.http://zsylvester.blogspot.com/2004/12/creationist-karstology.html
==Creationism==
Silvestru was employed by Answers in Genesis,https://answersingenesis.org/ministry-news/ministry/aig-hires-cave-man/http://zsylvester.blogspot.com/2004/12/creationist-karstology.html and stayed on the Creation Ministries International side during the split. Silvestru is a signatory of Creation Ministries International's list of scientists alive today who accept the biblical account of creation and participated in their movie The Voyage that Shook the World.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm6248568/ Silvestru is a "Seminar Lecturer" at CMI Canada, writes for the Journal of Creation and Creation Magazine, and has produced several DVDs.
===Arguments===
Silvestru has written for the existence of the Roraima pollen paradox, which supposedly proves the existence of a young Earth, and against the validity of radiometric dating, which actually proves the existence of an old Earth.
===Conversion===
Creation Ministries International writes of Silvestru's transition to creationism:
It's interesting how someone can "ethically" accept a literal Genesis and then become convinced of its scientific truth.
In Carl Wieland's interview of Silvestru, Silvestru wrote:
Silvestru writes of a time when he "was wading through a narrow gorge" and "massive boulders began falling":
Indeed, scientists routinely accept supernatural guidance for their successes.
==Blogbabble==
Silvestru likes to prattle on about various topics on a blog bearing his name. The blog is full of incoherent rantings, pseudoscience, and pseudo-academic screeds full of typographical errors and grammar crimes. A particularly hilarious example is found in the article "What is science and what is not 'science'?" containing wonderfully hilarious rantings such as:
==Other views==
Silvestru is also a global warming denier.WHY THE CLIMATE BECAME A CULT (is it climate or climato-Glycon?) drsilvestru.wordpress.com, 10 December 2019.
==See also==
*Roraima pollen paradox
*Carl Wieland
==External links==
*His blog
*"Dr. Emil Silvestru - "The Darwin Delusion" - September 27th, 2009 Evening Service"
*"Creation A scientific perspective - Dr. Emil Silvestru - Caves 1 / 2"
*"Dr Emil Silvestru "The Cave Book" 1 of 2"
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Emily Miller

Emily J. Miller (born 1970 or 1971) is a journalist, extreme right-wing writer, gun nut, and a member of the Unification Church ("Moonie") movement. She works as a "senior editor of opinion" for the Unification Church-owned Washington Times (also known as "The Moonie Times"), who consistently advocates far-right fringe views. She is a native of Baltimore.
==Investigative journalism position==
Miller is the chief investigative reporter for WTTG, the Fox affiliate for Washington, D.C. Her open, partisan advocacy on gun politics puts her journalistic objectivity in question.
In 2016, Miller joined One America News Network as a "Senior Political Correspondent".Emily J. Miller Joins One America News Network as Senior Political Correspondent. PR Newswire. 1 June, 2016 (Retrieved 24 June, 2018).
==Homophobia, transphobia and racism==
She frequently expresses extreme homophobic and transphobic views, and she claimed that Chelsea Manning's identification as a woman and request that she be referred to as "Chelsea" was an "absurd request.".Emily Miller, AP calls Bradley Manning a ‘she’ and liberal media fall in line with PC agenda, The Washington Times, 29 August 2013 
She is also frequently critical of undocumented immigrants to the United States.
==Gun nut==
A die-hard gun nut, she published the conspiracy theorist anti-Obama book Emily Gets Her Gun ... But Obama Wants to Take Yours in September 2013. One has to wonder why the evil Obama wanted to let her have a gun but not others. Media Matters for America challenges many claims in her book about Obama's positions on gun policy and characterizes them often as distortions. 24 Distortions About Guns From Wash. Times Editor Emily Miller's New Book She also told a tall tale about her home being robbed by 15 men as a reason why she wanted a gun.Additional document casts doubt on ‘home invasion’ of local Fox reporter
==Republican press spokesperson==
Before her tenure at the Times, Miller worked as a press spokesperson for several Republican politicians. She implicated her former fiancé Michael Scanlon in a political scandal after he broke off their engagement; he was subsequently convicted on federal corruption charges and sent to prison. She also had a record as an unusually brusque press person, once shouting at a reporter: "We don't know you! You don't exist! You are dead to us!"Jason Leopold, How they got caught: After lobbyist broke off engagement, ex-fiancee told of illicit dealings to FBI, 3 January 2006
==Notes==
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