Showing posts with label Chopra; Deepak. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chopra; Deepak. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Deepak Chopra Just Invited A Huge Lawsuit

From Christian Post:
New-age author and physician Deepak Chopra has offered prominent atheists such as Richard Dawkins a $1 million prize challenge to offer a scientific explanation for the biological basis of thoughts and ideas.

Addressing what he called a "tribe of militant new atheists," naming Dawkins, James Randi, and Daniel Dennett, Chopra announced the challenge in a video uploaded on Youtube earlier this week.

"Can you please offer a scientific understanding for the biological basis of a first-person experience? Any experience – mental experience, or perceptual experience. So for cognition, or for perception. And I'll even make it more simple. Can you offer a scientific understanding for the biological basis of an idea, a thought?" Chopra asks in the video.
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"Just tell me how does electrochemistry produce a thought, an idea, and you get the million dollars. I will live up to this. But it has to be a valid, scientific explanation for the biological basis of an idea."
They will hand him a Just So Story, demand their million dollars, and it will be up to Chopra to prove that it is not science. The term "science" has been made ambiguous by the very (non)discipline which invented it and needs it. Or he will be ignored or ridiculed.