Thanks for that, Jesse. History-by-Hollywood has been my downfall
before...scriptwriter Akiva Goldsman should perhaps get six cuts of
the school cane for using such a high degree of creative licence with
the facts. A Best Movie vote seems to screw up one's scholarly
instincts to check the
John M writes:
Stathis:
1. to Kim's question to Bruno (and your reply):
I call reasonable the items matching OUR (human) logic, even if we
call
it
a machine. There is no norm in the existence for 'reasonable', as
Cohen
and
Stewart showed in their chef d'oeuvre on Chaos in the imaginary
According to Stathis Papaioannou:
On the other hand, about 1/3 of people who present with psychotic
symptoms will have either a complete or a near-complete response
to medication with minimal side-effects, and it would be tragic if
they missed out due to anti-psychiatry prejudice or (more
On 5/24/06, Stathis Papaioannou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Finally, the very notion of continuity of personal identity, which is necessary if survival is to have any meaning, is just as much a product of evolutionary expedience. That is, it is no more logically necessary that an organism is the same
This piece of doggerel might be of interest to this list as it
combines a bit of science and theology to have some fun. It was
forwarded to me by my Grandfather (he's pretty amazing - we get a
weekly report of the happenings in the retirement home, and he writes
well enough to make it
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 03:35:07PM +1000, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
Philosophers are at the opposite extreme of engineers, in that they
consider the practical details of their thought experiments to be
unimportant. I think the idea that Parfit is exploring in the term
psychological
At the risk of wasting more bandwidth than I alread have I'd like
to apologize for any discomfort I've caused on the list. Sometimes
I feel like a jewish person arguing the reality of the holocaust
to doubters. Such is the hidden record of psychiatry and the power
of its PR machine. Please
I borrowed a copy of Parfit's book from UNSW's library. I daresay USyd
will have a copy too, perhaps even the State library.
Unless you meant my book, to which you've already had a sneak
preview. It can be purchased from http://www.booksurge.com.au, but I
will make an announcement on that in a
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