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The mods have gone mad and Rick has left the building. The dying moments of the forum. Hope you are all having fun. Nah! The forum regularly goes through such things, it comes with the interweeb where weebs abound but the forum endures. Personally I hope we go down the route of wiping the forum cle...

The mods have gone mad and Rick has left the building. The dying moments of the forum. Hope you are all having fun. Mods are human too. Rick has not left the building; Rick is just putting Philosophy Now Issue 101 to press which is keeping me too busy to post. In case of emergency call a Mod. My cu...

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I have Blagg on ignore ... HexHammer, I am tired of your bullying and I am even more tired of your daily whining to the administrators when Blaggard or the others stand up to you and insult you back. But this latest claim of yours is flagrantly dishonest and I am calling you on it. You have read th...

Paul Simon - 50 ways to leave your lover http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=298nld4Yfds The problem is all inside your head she said to me...the answer is easy if you take it logically... I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free...there must be 50 ways... It's really not my habit to intrude...I ...

uwot: Marjoramblues; if you have read this far, well done. I hope that goes some way to explain why I haven't yet read Greylorn's book. I still might,... :) Well, u know wot, it was of optimal length to prevent optical glazing. As for reading maths and equations to understand whatever, I'd be as wel...

Oh heck, juicy stuff for my gossip column...
Source for the report ?
And where is the film to be found ?

GE: If there is a way of removing off-topic and irrelevant posts that does not involve whining to a moderator, please let us know. M: No whining involved; reasoned requests are listened to. Action taken when necessary. GE: Of course this knowledge might come around and bite you in the backside, and ...

M: Thanks for answering the question re alleged misuse. I have replied - disagreeing with your position. However, I remain curious as to how the novel was used in philosophy courses, which ones, where and when. Perhaps too long ago to remember...? GE: You are a researcher. So get back to work, do yo...

High eye

Beautiful

My 'earlier post': Saturday Feb 22nd - p13 of thread 'Pure Consciousness?' M: The excerpts are found in 'Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul' -Part II. Entitled 'Soul Searching' this deals with a view of consciousness - from the outside, observing others. It asks the question 'What ...

Fascinating book - brought to my attention by Greylorn Ell (GE) in the thread 'Pure Consciousness ?': http://forum.philosophynow.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=10221 Elsewhere, GE: My first book, written under my real name, was a metaphysical story that did rather well, especially in foreign language ...

GE: The beon concept is taken from an old novel, "The Soul of Anna Klane," chapters from which were misused in Hofstadter and Dennett's book about human consciousness, "The Mind's I." Elsewhere, GE: My first book, written under my real name, was a metaphysical story that did rat...

Marjoramblues, You also do not have much to say about consciousness, but seem interested in debate practices. In debate, a person looks for a weakness in their opponent's position and then attacks it, which makes for long detailed posts that take the thread off topic. Please note that after 1,000 y...