Posted on June 18, 2009 by elliotbee
http://veniaminov.blogspot.com/2009/06/your-mouth-bone-is-connected-to-your.html
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Posted on April 7, 2009 by elliotbee
If you punch 2 + 2 and then = into a calculator, and it shows 5, is it wrong? Naturalistically, nothing malfunctioned in the calculator; its circuitry is flawless. Why is the calculator wrong about its sum but your “neurolator” is correct?
A naturalist believes that what he is saying and typing at any point in [...]
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Posted on September 15, 2008 by elliotbee
How can we (pardon the pun!) wrap our minds around the immateriality of the intellect, the non-materiality of the mind, and, thus, the human soul of which it is the chief power?
If I were to write one vertical hash mark, on an infinitely long slip of paper, for every number in the set of natural [...]
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