Tuesday, May 21, 2002

What is the sound of one oversimplification clapping? ...the intellectual's responsibility: not simply to resist the status quo...but to resist the temptation to treat distilled simplicities as though they represented the full complexity from which they were drawn. AKMA Although I will not attempt a full discussion of this issue here, it should be noted that it is difficult to explore concepts such as free will and consciousness in a strictly scientific context because these are inherently first-person subjective phenomena, whereas science is inherently a third person objective enterprise. Ray Kurzweil, discussing aspects of Stephen Wolfram's theory. "Mr. Castro, once, just once, show that you're unafraid of a real election." G.W. ("Fund Raiser") Bush Need help? Posted by tom 9:51:04 AM

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