Posted by lil' jimi on November 8, 2005, at 1:31:34
In reply to Re: ... Dennett thinks ..., posted by alexandra_k on November 6, 2005, at 4:28:30
dear alexandra k,
in observance of your excommunication from these towers of babble,
allow me to confirm my intention that we will take up our discussion in a week's time ...meanwhile, i shall try to catch up on my studies ...
... i read the excerpt from "Freedom Evolves" ...
... totally beyond my mistaken expectations ...
... Thanks ...i can also read the issues that brought our gracious doctor robert to whip out his can of punitive on our alexandra k ...
... all i got so far was that you are opposed to something and hence thought it was not fair ... And this then could lead others to feel negatively judged ... that's a No-no, so you got the boot ...anyway, that is one long fragging thread there and for me it may take a week to read the whole thing ...
by the bye, i have been banned before ... more than once ...
... and, i pretty much earned them ... i admit i was not civil ...
... in fact, i was/have been concerned i may have been banned (and hence dismissed from our conversation) for some of my recent contributions to pB politics ... and it may happen yet ...... ha!
... but i should say that i have noticed and do appreciate that my shots at Bill O'Reilly have been honored by being awarded the top of the page status ...
... we know that does not happen by itself ...
... perhaps a somewhat subtle editorial from the management ... (?) ...anyway, my studies (glacial as they go) now include "intentionality"
and "compatabilism" ... i am going for a lot more context for them both ... shameful of me to have so little appreciation of Dennett really ...my interests focus on the intersection of neuroscientific studies of consciousness (like libet's "mind time: the temporal factor in consciousness"; restak's "modular brain"; rita carter's "exploring consciousness"); penrose's mathematical realism; the ontology of quantum theory; and mahayana buddhism ...
... it is a small intersection ...for instance, in oliver sacks' "the man who mistook his wife for a hat", sacks tells of sub-60s IQ savant twins who, as casual spor,t exchanged progressively larger numbers with some pleasure ... sacks discovers these 6 or 7 digit (i forget how many digits exactly numbers are all prime ... (i can't find my copy of sacks' right now; maybe they were 9 digit primes)
... it is as if they were plucking them from some platonic reality they had access to ...i come here to explore the political implications of that intersection.
malignance and political oppression exist.
seeing these things as unfair and expressing our opposition is a delicate matter here in the land of the dictatorship of the Civil.
there are risks for trying.
you are paying for taking that risk.
i honor you for your sacrifice.
i'll be here when you can return.
... well, i plan to be here ... one never knows ...~ jim, i could get banned too
poster:lil' jimi
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