Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id NAA13167 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:06:53 +0100 Subject: Re: mysticism etc Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:04:11 -0400 x-sender: wsmith1@camail2.harvard.edu x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, Claritas Est Veritas From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-ID: <20000921120409.AAA4871@camailp.harvard.edu@[204.96.32.109]> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Hi Robin Faichney --
>It's the universe that's conscious. And mysticism is the route to
>actually realising this -- as opposed to playing intellectually with
>the concept, which is guaranteed to get you nowhere.
Honestly, Robin, that's an extra-ordinary claim, and often ignored due to
its woo-woo quality.
But honestly, I'm listening. I have been listening to claims like this
for all my life.
Being a skeptic is not, as you caricaturize, being closed to claims of
this sort, but, not being gullible to the point of accepting things
without empirical evidence.
Show me the EEG of the universe.
- Wade
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