From: Dr Sebby (drsebby@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Mar 10 2004 - 00:23:04 MST
....while at university, my sister had a guy from the patent office visit
her class. he said, "you wouldnt believe how many times i've seen a fairly
unique and complex invention idea submitted for patent approval by two
unrelated parties on opposite ends of the earth within minutes or hours of
each other."
...i think this might speak to your question. perhaps it's just a
"consensual conclusion". a bottleneck of human thought if you will.
DrSebby.
"Courage...and shuffle the cards".
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From: "Nathanael Allison" <jubungalord@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: virus@lucifer.com
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: virus: Raining Consciousness
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 11:52:03 -0500
Reading my monthly Scientific American I stumble upon an article title "The
Major Unsolved Problem in Biology" by Micheal Shermer (author of Borderlands
of Science, currently reading) which is a review of 3 books explaining
consciousness all dated 2004. I compound this with 68,000 hits on amazon
keyword-consciousness and the fact that I have 20 books already heading
towards Germany that I've hand picked about consciousness before my plane
has even taken off (in the Army you must factor in quantum mechanics and
several layers of additional uncertainty principles to figure out when your
plane leaves) leading me to believe that hundreds of proffesionals all seem
to be either
A - hitting continuously on some buzzword "consciousness" to sell random
life-cisis type driftors books
B - are all in a self contained bubble in which no unified theory of "we
need to get out of here and see the world" will stop this epiphany meme
C - restateing 99% of previously written material has been shown to get
those collegiate types on the fast lane of acedemia
Oh but don't stop me now. For progress resides not in proposing new
authentic theories, It is the essence of stasis that propells science. Or to
be more correct the essence of slightly educated popular opinion of science
in stasis that propells the future of science.
Pray to the media filters
"Does thou hast not a brother that hasn't the abilities to stopeth the
redundancies"
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