From: "Michael M. Butler" <butler@comp-lib.org>
> You plan to counsel three billion people?
The line forms on Highway 44, please.
For an appointment send $19.95 + $.05 S&H (Federal Reserve Notes Only) to:
Afterglow Psychonomy Services
PO Box 333
Palo Cedro, CA 96073
Stay hungry,
--J. R.
3M TA3
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"If you go back a hundred years," he explains, "one of the biggest
scientific questions was 'what is life?' And one of the most prominent
theories had to do with vitalism--some substance, some thing that is
transmitted from cell to cell, animal to animal, that is the essence of
life. Well, you don't hear anybody talking about vitalism anymore. We've
come far enough to see all the mechanics--we've seen how DNA works, we've
seen all the pieces of the cell, and we don't have need for a hypothesis
like vitalism." So it will go, Sejnowski suspects, with consciousness.
(Phlogiston, incidentally, refers to a theoretical substance that people
once sought in combustible material, thinking it made up the "substance" of
fire.)
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