Paul C. Anagnostopoulos
20th November 2003, 08:29 PM
Awhile ago, Bill made this statement, which I am still using as my email sig line:
Concerning dualism: Why should I be concerned with your impotent, girlie-ghost? It seems to me that, if it exists at all, my chemicals are far more powerful. My surgery trumps the phantasm every time. Why should I care that you can construct such a lame ideation? I can put it to sleep by turning the gas knob.
I just finished reading Rita Carter's Mapping the Mind, which ends with this paragraph:
The findings outlined in this book give only the sketchiest impression of the landscape of the mind---the task of creating a detailed picture is one for the new millennium and beyond. Yet I believe one thing is already clear: there is no ghost in this place, no monsters in the depths, no lands ruled by dragons. What today's mind voyagers are discovering is instead a biological system of awe-inspiring complexity. There is no need for us to satisfy our sense of wonder by conjuring phantoms---the world within our heads is more marvellous than anything we can dream up.
~~ Paul
Concerning dualism: Why should I be concerned with your impotent, girlie-ghost? It seems to me that, if it exists at all, my chemicals are far more powerful. My surgery trumps the phantasm every time. Why should I care that you can construct such a lame ideation? I can put it to sleep by turning the gas knob.
I just finished reading Rita Carter's Mapping the Mind, which ends with this paragraph:
The findings outlined in this book give only the sketchiest impression of the landscape of the mind---the task of creating a detailed picture is one for the new millennium and beyond. Yet I believe one thing is already clear: there is no ghost in this place, no monsters in the depths, no lands ruled by dragons. What today's mind voyagers are discovering is instead a biological system of awe-inspiring complexity. There is no need for us to satisfy our sense of wonder by conjuring phantoms---the world within our heads is more marvellous than anything we can dream up.
~~ Paul