Re: Which Singularity Don't You Want?

: "Michael S. Schiffer" <mschiffe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
: Huh? I've been reading your and Dr. Dave's go-rounds on this
: subject, I think reasonably thoroughly, both in its current iterations
: and previous ones, and I don't recognize this at all. Are there
: particular quotes (or references to posts in Google Groups) that would
: illustrate the claim you're summarizing above?

Don't worry, it's just my brain skipping a groove and quoting
from "The Incredibles" again. In this case, set off by
the keyword "inevitable".

"So now I'm in deep trouble. I mean, one more jolt of this death ray
and I'm an epitaph. Somehow I managed to find cover and what does
Baron Von Ruthless do?"

"He starts monologuing."

"He starts monologuing! He starts like this prepared speech about how
*feeble* I am compared to him. How *inevitable* my defeat is, how the
*world* will *soon* be *his*! Yada, yada, yada."

The thing I'm on about is Dave's general, implicit position that dualism
somehow resolves all these terrible problems materialism has, and I don't
understand how dualism resolves the particular ones we're talking about,
ie, how to you tell if something is "coersion", and how to make that
meaning "less arbitrary" somehow.


Wayne Throop throopw@xxxxxxxxx http://sheol.org/throopw
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