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My 'earlier post': Saturday Feb 22nd - p13 of thread 'Pure Consciousness?' M: The excerpts are found in 'Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul' -Part II. Entitled 'Soul Searching' this deals with a view of consciousness - from the outside, observing others. It asks the question 'What ...

Fascinating book - brought to my attention by Greylorn Ell (GE) in the thread 'Pure Consciousness ?': http://forum.philosophynow.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=10221 Elsewhere, GE: My first book, written under my real name, was a metaphysical story that did rather well, especially in foreign language ...

GE: The beon concept is taken from an old novel, "The Soul of Anna Klane," chapters from which were misused in Hofstadter and Dennett's book about human consciousness, "The Mind's I." Elsewhere, GE: My first book, written under my real name, was a metaphysical story that did rat...

Marjoramblues, You also do not have much to say about consciousness, but seem interested in debate practices. In debate, a person looks for a weakness in their opponent's position and then attacks it, which makes for long detailed posts that take the thread off topic. Please note that after 1,000 y...

Elsewhere, GE: My first book, written under my real name, was a metaphysical story that did rather well, especially in foreign language translations, and remains a popular internet cult classic. Two of its chapters have been filmed, republished, excerpted by a respected philosopher, and used in phi...

GE: The beon concept is taken from an old novel, "The Soul of Anna Klane," chapters from which were misused in Hofstadter and Dennett's book about human consciousness, "The Mind's I." M: In your opinion, how were the chapters misused ? GE: Miedaner used both chapters to present s...

GE: The beon concept is taken from an old novel, "The Soul of Anna Klane," chapters from which were misused in Hofstadter and Dennett's book about human consciousness, "The Mind's I." In your opinion, how were the chapters misused ? Elsewhere, GE: My first book, written under my...

uwot: As I said to Greylorn Ell, some of the tales he tells are amusing, although the mouthpiece, even by it's creators admission is deeply unpleasant. So I might get round to it, but it's not top of my priorities right now. Why do you ask? Have you read it? No, I haven't read it. Why do I ask ? Wel...

uwot wrote:Sir, whoever you are, I like you far better than that truculent Greylorn Ell. Still, I shall read his book anyway.

So, uwot - have your read it yet ?

GE:

The beon concept is taken from an old novel, "The Soul of Anna Klane," chapters from which were misused in Hofstadter and Dennett's book about human consciousness, "The Mind's I."

In your opinion, how were the chapters misused ?

Is this the appropriate place for comment on the forum? Seems to be a fair bit of agro around, and little humor. I suggest that it might help to have a section for off-topic and community threads; this is a common tactic to induce a feeling of belonging and ownership in members. Cheers, Banno This....

A brief explanation of one element of my theory may be helpful. The brain is not the source of human consciousness. The brain contains an antenna-tuner system which connects to the entity referred to by religionists as the soul. I employ a different word for soul, "beon," a non-created ph...

For book description and other, less Cawstic, reviews, see:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/America-Philoso ... lin+romano

Crikey! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Make-Good-Decisions-Right-Time-ebook/dp/B007OWQPPG/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top Philosopher, adventurer, international conflict expert... Iain King CBE has written some fascinating books. 'How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time' is both an easy-to-understand...

Thanks for responses. Skip: You can compare the language and tone of these two sources, even if you don't know the technical details. M: Did that, thanks. There does seem to be a lot of hot air; shame we can't harness it. To frack or not to frack? Will we even have a say in the matter ? Even if we h...