In article <39F85E5C.548B2C14 at alcyone.com>,
Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> wrote:
>simonh_hibbs at my-deja.com wrote:
>> > I had a look through the web site. There were a lot of
> > words there, but I'm afraid I couldn't make sense of much
> > of it. It was all ver stream-of-conciousness (funily enough).
>> Yes, Murray is a well-known crank, and Mentifex is well-known
> crankosity.
That may well be, but such ad hominem poisoning of the well
is not a good tool for rational thought. For instance, Murray
wrote in this thread:
IMHO inteligence does not so much *require* consciousness
as inescapably give rise to, or *cause* consciousness as
a natural by-product of knowledge about self and the world:
That claim is less crankish than a lot else written here,
and if we want to find crankishness in people, we surely can.
In fact, all the interesting people I know are a bit of a crank
about *something*.
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