Re: death of the mind.

From: David Longley (David_at_longley.demon.co.uk)
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 19:52:39 +0100

In article <4104eb29_1@news.iprimus.com.au>, John Casey
<kjcasey@hotkey.net.au> writes
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>"dan michaels" <feedbackdroids@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:8d8494cf.0407252021.66067bcf@posting.google.com...
>> "John Casey" <kjcasey@hotkey.net.au> wrote in message
>news:<410422ee_1@news.iprimus.com.au>...
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>> > So hard to convey a mental concept using words with shifting
>> > meanings. Have you ever read the Matter Myth by Paul Davies?
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>> This isn't actually related to your question to Eray, but I've always
>> had the feeling that PD was really just a fundamentalist masquerading
>> as a scientist. Whadyathink?
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>I certainly hope not. I find religious fundamentalists as scary people
>in that they are beyond reasoning with. And indeed they operate in
>the opposite direction to the open minded and open ended pursuits
>of science.
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>John Casey
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Forget about "religious fundamentalists" - as I have laboured here ad
nauseam, the pursuit of truth is more often obstructed by folk of a far
milder ("thoughtless") disposition.

http://www.vdare.com/pb/bell_curve.htm

The nature of that obstruction (intensional opacity) and what it reveals
is what I've suggested those interested in intelligent behaviour (real
or artificial) need to look more into. Yet people like Michaels, Zick
and Ozkural etc. remain (abusively) clueless. These, in my view, are the
"scary people"! Try to grasp why. 

-- 
David Longley
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