> to be working in terms of
>>>logical consistency
There's the rub. Paul won't let me speak for myself.
Avoidance of incoherence in one's presuppositions is compatible with any
level of artistic creativity Paul Toth can describe, I'm sure.
When he finishes his cake perhaps he will tell us about a great novel with
incoherent presuppositions. There clearly are some great tales whose
presuppositions are not only coherent, but whose characters suffer
destiny's fate more inexorably than Paul or I got right answers on
mathematics exams. The latest, best evolutionary account of the evolution
of human inferential capacities invokes the social selection pressures
associated with promise keeping, the detection of promise breakers, and the
enforcement of promises. Seems a little dramatic. But then I'm probably
a hack.
This all started, I think, because of my admittedly pedantic objection to
phrases such as Wade Riddick's "Frankenstein made a creature' as if they
had significance for the mind-body problem.
Is it the custom of this list is to regard the mind-body problem and the
corruption of western industrial civilization as identical topics? or to
change the subject at least five times before a thread expires?
'Frankenstein made a creature' is either coherent because it confuses
manufacture with creation or evolution; or it begs the question as to
whether some human artefacts might be completely indistinguishable, in a
crucial cognitive, affective, behavioral, or consious aspect, from the
humans who design and build them.
I meant no offense by the use of the term 'redneck. That term, for this
son of rural Ohio and descendant of Alsatian stone breakers and cutters, is
self-referential.
Wake me when a new thread starts. Or when it's time to finish the uncut
cake in Paul's fridge.
ez