On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 01:32:24PM +1200, LizR wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:42 PM, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> > wrote: > > This was always why I found the fading qualia argument unconvincing - > > in spite of being a died-in-the-wool functionalist. > > > Russell - just so you know - the expression is "dyed in the wool". It > refers to the fact that if you dye wool BEFORE spinning it into fabric, the > colour is less likely to fade, hence metaphorically like strong beliefs. > > However, our very own New Zealand detective novelist Ngaio Marsh, who was > fond of puns, wrote a novel called "Died in the wool" in which someone was > murdered and the body ends up in a bale of wool (or something like that - > it's been a while since I read it). >
Apologies for the mispelling. The pun wasn't intended, nor was there meant to be any implication of "dead wool" (wool extracted from a sheep's carcass - lower value than that shorn from a living sheep, but valuable none-the-less. My farming background here...) Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
