Comments on: Back To Basics http://malcolmpollack.com/2008/03/20/back-to-basics-2/ I go many places... Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:36:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Malcolm http://malcolmpollack.com/2008/03/20/back-to-basics-2/comment-page-1/#comment-80585 Malcolm Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:03:52 +0000 http://malcolmpollack.com/2008/03/20/back-to-basics-2/#comment-80585 Hi Bob, Well, it's one a.m., and I've just pulled in after five hours of driving and had a better look, and yes, generally I'd have to agree. We can pull it to pieces tomorrow. Or not. Sorry. I see you got in there too. One thing I do want to look at from the comment thread is <a href="http://jeffwunder.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/why-am-i-me/" rel="nofollow">this item</a>, which asks the question "<em>Why am I me?"</em> -- which the poster says he's even spoken to David Chalmers about, and that Chalmers agrees it's a troubling question. I must be missing something; it seems to me that I'm <em>me</em> because it is <em>this brain in this head </em>that is doing the wondering -- and why that should even be a momentarily interesting, let alone troubling, question, eludes me at the moment. But I'm too zonked to say anything more about it now. Hi Bob,

Well, it’s one a.m., and I’ve just pulled in after five hours of driving and had a better look, and yes, generally I’d have to agree. We can pull it to pieces tomorrow. Or not. Sorry.

I see you got in there too.

One thing I do want to look at from the comment thread is this item, which asks the question “Why am I me?” — which the poster says he’s even spoken to David Chalmers about, and that Chalmers agrees it’s a troubling question. I must be missing something; it seems to me that I’m me because it is this brain in this head that is doing the wondering — and why that should even be a momentarily interesting, let alone troubling, question, eludes me at the moment. But I’m too zonked to say anything more about it now.

]]> By: bob koepp http://malcolmpollack.com/2008/03/20/back-to-basics-2/comment-page-1/#comment-80564 bob koepp Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:09:01 +0000 http://malcolmpollack.com/2008/03/20/back-to-basics-2/#comment-80564 It's not even worth reading that discussion unless you're gathering evidence that some otherwise intelligent people are prone to go on and on about matters they haven't really thought through. Larry Moran is pretty good when discussing biological topics, but here he's just, well, blathering. It’s not even worth reading that discussion unless you’re gathering evidence that some otherwise intelligent people are prone to go on and on about matters they haven’t really thought through. Larry Moran is pretty good when discussing biological topics, but here he’s just, well, blathering.

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