--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" <maskedzebra@...> wrote:
> If you don't have the hair stand up on your back of your head > after reading the book, I will personally refund the cost of > the book. ;-) I'm beginning to get the impression you like this book Robin. OK already - I'm buying it! (Or rather reserving it - it's not yet available as a proper book at Amazon I see, only as a wretched digital version). > Nagel goes where no one else has gone... It's all 'footnotes to Plato', no? But on the Darwinian issue particularly, I think I once noticed a reference you made to the Biochemist Michael Behe. So I guess you're familiar with him? I have recently read Darwin's Black Box and found it fascinating (I think this book would interest you salyavin808!). You've also mentioned James Le Fanu (http://www.jameslefanu.com/books). But I wonder, have you read any David Stove? He's a wonderfully entertaining iconoclast who has much fun with Dawkins - "Darwinian Fairytales". http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/davidstove.html >.. PaliGap, and it is the connection between his own intelligence > and first person ontology with reality itself [my theory] > which gives such force and power and clarity to his book. I'd love to see his reaction to that! > For me, Nagel's book becomes the occasion to demonstrate the > primacy of the importance of one's first person perspective(!)... An excellent choice of expression if I may say so. >..in determining one's experience and judgment of almost > everything that is important to us. *Especially what is true*. Well, er... not sure about that. > In the postmodern age reading this book comes closest to what > could be described as an objective religious experience; because > one is encountering something so rare: the circumstance of *what > is the case* (what is the truth) somehow getting contained in > the brain and heart and character of a single human being > and articulating itself--even as Nagel would never consider he > has written his book under the influence of any kind of muse. Yes you do seem to like this book. What passion for a dry, philosophical tome! As a young man I would think your experience of 'first love' must have been dangerously intense.
