Peter Hansen wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Life is a process, not a thing --
when a clock runs down and stops ticking, there is no essence of ticking
that keeps going, the gears just stop. When I stop walking, there is no
spirit of walk that survives me coming to a halt. I just stop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (U) wrote:
U While preparing a Python411 podcast about classes and OOP, my mind
U wondered far afield. I found myself constructing an extended metaphor
U or analogy between the way programs are organized and certain
U philosophical ideas. So, going where my better angels dare
Our psyche is formed by external forces, and only exists in interaction
with them. (Our inner self is not separate from our external
influences).
As we are part of something bigger than ourselves, the death of our
physical body is not an end to the 'psychological' forces that we
perceive to be
Nicola Musatti wrote:
Yet all these examples appear to me to be better explained as instances
of a form of physiological or psichological inertia than as indications
of the existence of some form of meta reality.
But can you define physiological or psychological inertia in such a
way that the
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In this sense, we are like the ghost in the machine of a computer
system running a computer program, or programs, written in a procedural
language and style.
Makes sense - i heard that Steve Russell invented continuations after
reading the Tibetan
Apart from wishful thinking of course. That's always the major component
in any reasoning about the afterlife. Life is a process, not a thing --
when a clock runs down and stops ticking, there is no essence of ticking
that keeps going, the gears just stop. When I stop walking, there is no
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While preparing a Python411 podcast about classes and OOP, my mind
wondered far afield. I found myself constructing an extended metaphor
or analogy between the way programs are organized and certain
philosophical ideas. So, going where my better angels dare not, here
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps this is one reason why programmers are so passionate, and even
religious, about their programming tools; because they intuitively
sense that we are dealing with ideas that, however crudely, mirror
eternal realities of immense significance.
While I don't
On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 19:05:04 -0500, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I don't dare ask where your evidence for this hypothesis is, but I will
ask what are your reasons for imagining this? What is the chain of
thought that leads from:
Step 1: We live in a temporal world.
to:
Step N: Our
While preparing a Python411 podcast about classes and OOP, my mind
wondered far afield. I found myself constructing an extended metaphor
or analogy between the way programs are organized and certain
philosophical ideas. So, going where my better angels dare not, here is
the forbidden fruit of my
There are many ways of going crazy, but the most valuable of them is
this one which makes a genius out of an ordinary man.
Claudio
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While preparing a Python411 podcast about classes and OOP, my mind
wondered far afield. I found myself constructing an extended metaphor
On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 13:38:47 -0800, UrsusMaximus wrote:
It seems to me that, if anything of a person survives death in any way,
it must do so in some way very different from that way in which we
exist now.
[snip]
I don't dare ask where your evidence for this hypothesis is, but I will
ask what
The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in the
physical occurrences of the brain just as the loveliest of melodies are
not too sublime to be expressed by notes.--Somerset Maugham
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 13:38:47 -0800, UrsusMaximus wrote:
It seems to me that, if anything of a person survives death in any way,
it must do so in some way very different from that way in which we
exist now.
[snip]
I don't dare ask where your evidence for this
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Life is a process, not a thing --
when a clock runs down and stops ticking, there is no essence of ticking
that keeps going, the gears just stop. When I stop walking, there is no
spirit of walk that survives me coming to a halt. I just stop walking.
Yet when one listens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
While preparing a Python411 podcast about classes and OOP, my mind
wondered far afield. I found myself constructing an extended metaphor
or analogy between the way programs are organized and certain
philosophical ideas. So, going where my better angels dare not, here
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