What the hell is a progressive contrarian? Well, when the terms left-wing and right-wing have lost any meaning whatsoever, is there any fundamental fault line that means anything politically any more? The only true differentiator is between those who believe that human progress is both desirable and possible, and those who don't. The real split these days is between progressives and reactionaries. And contrarian? That should speak for itself...
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Consciousness is king
In an earlier post Debuking the debunkers I mentioned the theory proposed by some people that consciousness is an illusion. There's an interesting review on LondonBookReview.com of a book called 'A Mind So Rare' that sets out to attack that idea and to put consciousness to the fore. Well worth reading.
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