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Greg Hill made a really interesting post on his blog today in which he discusses the contention raised by the philosopher Galen Strawson that physicalism entails panpsychism, or the stance that all physical matter is conscious. Now I don’t propose to develop that specific argument, but in comments I have discussed the idea that it [...] Words dissemble plant them Jim Morrison, American Prayer It has been suggested in a forum I contribute too that words only have the power that we give them. This is an idea that I would like to explore on several levels. I’m not proposing a certitude either way, I’m [...] A blogger who’s posts I admire wrote what he called “sketch for a short story” a while back. In this story, a credible construction from an indo-european perspective of the sort of things that may have been practiced and believed by the original druids, although in and of itself wholely a work of fiction, the [...] Lance Foster (The Sleeping Giant) raised some points in respect of my blog post entitled “Animism:Souls or Relationships?” that got me thinking about the language related to ‘new animism’ and ‘old animism’ and has left me feeling a little uncomfortable. Core to any animism seem to be “ways of relating”, but in contemporary western society, the [...] |
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