Entries from August 2008

Tom’s Dissertation

Comments   4   Date Arrow  August 23, 2008 at 9:17am   User  by Psybertron

Uploaded a PDF copy of son Tom’s undergrad philosophy dissertation “On Incompleteness, Inconsistency and Moral Dilemmas.” By Tom Glendinning, Easter 2008, in which, after applying Godel to the problem he concludes: “The future for moral debate … has to be concerned with the insurmountable dichotomy between complete and consistent moral systems. As we can no [...]

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Zen and Anytime Soon

Comments   0   Date Arrow  August 22, 2008 at 9:22am   User  by Psybertron

Only a couple of weeks before publication of Mark Richardson’s Zen and Now – 9th September – and here is an on-line Q&A with the author.

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The End of Dialectics

Comments   2   Date Arrow  August 9, 2008 at 11:24am   User  by Psybertron

Finished Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” at last … a rather disrupted read over several months … I last blogged an extract when I was less than a third of the way through back in April. Despite the lack of quality time to devote to it, I somehow sensed this was an important one to finish. [...]

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Synaesthesia

Comments   0   Date Arrow  August 7, 2008 at 9:07am   User  by Psybertron

Hearing in colour, intermingling of the senses. Add this to the pile of abnormal sensory conditions that shed light (or is that sound) on what perception really is.

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