Fides Quaerens Intellectum

This spring an article in Time magazine entitled “2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal” really woke me up.  For years I’ve used the late Harvard political philosopher Robert Nozick’s thought experiment called “the experience machine” (found in Nozick’s book Anarchy, State, & Utopia) to generate discussion with my students and to ask a few key questions about what it means to be human, and how the best college education will make that question the stackpole around which all other questions are gathered.  Philosophy of education aside for the moment, the Time article will jolt anyone who thought that Schwarzeneggar’s brand was a mere fiction relegated to our DVD libraries.  If this isn’t a case for young, clear-minded Christian thinkers to go and get Ph.D.’s in neuroscience and philosophy of mind from the best universities in the world, I don’t know what is.