Am I the only one that notices that Slate and Salon are prone knee-jerk editorial responses to things?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism ________________________________ From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> on behalf of glen ☣ <geprope...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, August 7, 2017 12:24:57 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: [FRIAM] the self So, I read this the other day: The Promise of LSD Microdoses and Other Psychedelic "Medicines" https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/the-promise-of-lsd-microdoses-and-other-psychedelic-medicines/ and was reminded of Frank's dare to read: The Analysis of the Self http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo8324792.html I subsequently forgot about it all. But then this popped up: The Dangerous Delusions of Richard Dawkins http://www.alternet.org/belief/dangerous-delusions-richard-dawkins and: Predictably, Salon publishes a new Dawkins hit piece, and it’s as dreadful as you’d expect https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/08/07/predictably-salon-publishes-a-new-dawkins-hit-piece-and-its-as-dreadful-as-youd-expect/ I still feel (over 2 decades after making a fool of myself during a lunch at the SFI) that the concept of "self" is the most abused concept of humanity's entire existence. Everyone uses it so often and in so many ways that it's pert near meaningless, to someone like me, anyway. What's amazing to me is that everyone can go along on their happy pretense that they've communicated something when they speak/write or hear/read the word. It reminded me again of the appeal (to me) of Hoffman's Interface Theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYp5XuGYqqY Anyway, I have no point. Any comments/laughter are welcome. 8^) -- ☣ glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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