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Don't know why I'm persuing this, I'm sure anyone else who's looking at this thread must be very bored by now. I did ask you much earlier what you meant by dualism, if you were talking about property or substance dualism, and you declined to respond. I'm not trying to box you in to any...

My definition of physical is not relevent. What is relevent is the substance dualist's definition of physical, as you claim to be one. So whats that? The physical is just that which is not mental. So beliefs, desires, etc are in the realm of the mental, everything else is in the realm of the...

Yep this gets my vote too. although i thought woebot didnt want to create anymore forums, so you might not get favourable response from the management

oh.. I didn't know that. i thought they were a new band, with some members of simian. anyway, its pretty good.

Austro-American jazz, band called Clogs. Listen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazzfest2004/clogs.shtml the new Doloroso album (ex-Simian) Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf

And you seem to have trouble drawing coherent lines between your dots. You are confusing the material with the physical, and metaphysics with epistemology. EM fields are firmly within the realm of the physical. So are quantum fields and extra string dimensions, compacted in space or otherwise...

See above? So you are going to maintain that "undiscovered quantum fields" are in fact non-physical? Good luck with that. If you want to refute my argument, and explain why collective mind = dualism, go ahead. Until then, I'm going to stick with my original thoughts: you don't understand what...

A potted summary of dualism vs physicalism isn't going to help here. Let me refresh the argument: 1) You say that the mind is a collective thing, hidden with "as yet undiscovered" quantum fields or dimensions. 2) You say you're dualist. But not quite a Cartesian. No explanation as to the...

OK, so your version of dualism is a "collective mind". Why is that dualism? It's perfectly possible to argue for some sort of collective mental entity, whilst being a physicalist - and all your talk of this collective mind being located in extra curled up dimensions suggests this. If you could...

bumping this up... just got home after a few days away, hoping to find my tape sitting on the door mat... but no joy :( Has everyone else mostly got theirs yet? Whats going on with the review blog/thread? PS well done on finishing your thesis minikomi.

Yeah it unfortunately throws up trance on rather a lot of stuff. Just make sure you give the trance the big "thumbs down" - and it won't bring it up again.

Talking of this sort of thing, have you heard the Shy Child remix of the Futureheads "Decent days and nights"? Its kinda dancehall-y. Pretty good.

Well perhaps you'd like to explain what your definition of dualism is? If you're going to use a philosophical term in a non-standard way, we won't get much further with understanding each other. I was assuming you were talking about substance dualism. Perhaps you mean property dualism...

Philosophy related tattoo? Do tell...

Dualism is a belief in two different substances that make up the world. The mental and the physical. Do you believe in that or not? "Yet undiscovered quantum fields" sounds to me like physical substance that we don't know about, ie physicalism. Again, no, sorry. Being non-dualistic is simply...

If you're a dualist, good god, even a Cartesian, why are you reading all this stuff by McCrone etc? All these contempory ideas in cognitive science are strongly anti-dualistic, even more so than computational thories. Evolution is not a change over time with a degree of feedback. If it was...

Evolution doesn't happen that fast. Changing social/cultural environments occur on the order of decades and centuries, not over the many thousands of generations that are required for natural selection of characteristics. If one was to take a baby born hundreds of years ago, and bring it up in...

well.. its to do with neo-darwinian evolutionay psychology applied to organisational management. will have to write more later...

hmm well yes turned up at 11, with people who had us on the guestlist. but the queue was enourmous and fucking cold... so went home. sigh.

yes, last time i went to Ourdisco it got rammed. was a bit shit as well. hopefully d&g will make it better..