Archive for November, 2007

If You Had Only Two Months to Live

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

Jon Galloway has a post titled “Thanksgiving as a Lifestyle“, where he argues that we should be thankful for every second we have, and backs it up with three observations:

The fact the you are alive is utterly improbable in the grand scheme of things.  Given what we think we know about evolution, the probability of […]

Book Review: De La Mettrie’s Ghost

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Excellent book.  I’m glad I didn’t get turned away by the materialist reductionism at the beginning.  Here is a summary:
Materialist Views
Chris Nunn is Associate Editor of the Journal of Consciousness Studies, and researcher and practitioner in the field.  He begins his book by giving a survey of what is known about consciousness.  He covers biology, […]

You Aren’t What You Eat

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

A big “thank you” to whichever reader recommended I read “De La Mettrie’s Ghost”!  The recommendation was made in comments to another post 2 years ago, and I only recently got around to reading it.  In fact, I got annoyed with it at first, and put it down to finish a couple of other books.  […]