Re: [FRIAM] rip Dennett

Glen - Good analysis with some extra angles, thanks...   Card's conception/formulation is not unlike all of his, wonderfully (by some measure) clever and out-of-the-box whilst being derived from Card's own nature/embedding in the culture he was born/raised to. I like your invocation of the

Re: [FRIAM] rip Dennett

Both Knox (who's back in Italian court) and Robinson are atheists, but I guess practice Zen. This leads to an interesting inside vs outside conception of who they "are". It strikes me that no amount of studying a person (or, more accurately, the detritus they've left behind and the dissipating

Re: [FRIAM] rip Dennett

I am lead by Glen's response to think of Orson Scott Card's "Speaker for the Dead" In Orson Scott Card's "Speaker for the Dead," the main and titular theme revolves around understanding and compassion through the truthful telling of

[FRIAM] rip Dennett

I could only wish I'd be criticized this well when I die: "Dennett’s text is full of tirades wrought from petty grievances, is disorganized to the point of being unreadable, and like the rest of his books, will undoubtedly not have much influence."