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Location: Morecambe, UK

Occupation: Support worker and builder.

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Registration Date: Dec 11, 2007

Usergroup: Sponsors

Rating: 89

Topics Submitted: 24 topics

Total Posts: 389 (0 per day)

Replies Received: 318

Shouts: 14

Total Time Online: 19 days, 21 hours and 17 minutes

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Most recent topics:

• POLL: the mind-body problem again
  
• Poll: is consciousness emergent?
  
• An ebertentist dilemma
  
• Why did jsawvel get banned?
  
• An emergentist dilemma
  

Most recent posts:

• I haven't heard that term before, but I've come across similar concepts. A google search turned up some very dodgy looking sites promising...
• My oversimplified view: Panpsychism + monism = Godism EDIT: Come to think of it, I'd be really interested in the views of panpsychist monist...
• By sentience I mean consciousness (I know some make a distinction). By consciousness I mean what is usually meant in the philosophy of mind, X is ...
• Oh, I think it is random. If something is freely willed, it is randomly willed. See above. I think all events are caused, but the f...
• Interesting question. I'm not sure of the answer. What about will? If we think of will as the capacity of conscious substance to initiate action, ...

Most recent shouts:

• bert1 [Dec 19, 2009 - 9:06 AM]: I work for an autistic woman who has two autistic children. They aren't much like RainMan. I don't think she would call RainMan high-functioning, becuse in soocial terms, he isn't. His high-function is only in a very narrow area. From what she says 'high-functioning' autistic people are the ones who can interact with the world more successfully than low-functioning.
• bert1 [Dec 11, 2009 - 7:25 AM]: oh. Squitty poo colour.
• bert1 [Dec 11, 2009 - 7:24 AM]: What colour am I?
• bert1 [Sep 11, 2009 - 1:37 AM]: That's pretty good, kkiiji. It reminds me of the many times I've had an 8 by 4 foot (or 4 by 8 for you guys) sheet of plasterboard jammed between my head and the ceiling while I fumble with screws and a battery drill tryng to get the thing screwed up. One's head is a very useful third hand in such circumstances, almost as good as another person.
• bert1 [Aug 18, 2009 - 1:02 AM]: He only said he'd stay for a month, I think. He hasn't appeared again since May.