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1 Four Working versions of GA in the files (A--D), plus the reference
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2 version
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4 Plan was to read those. But haven't. Again. So maybe we should do
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5 that together. But larger things have
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6 been on my mind.
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8 Did reread most of the reference version. It struck me as extremely
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9 compressed, dense. A lot of mulling and consideration has been
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10 cmopressed in a small amount of prose.
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12 Maybe I/we should just read through it and "let the thing breath",
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13 [that is, try to expand that sort of density where we find it].
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15 One consideration of whether the religious (not theological)
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16 sensibility/attempt to tie the paper to religious themes -- how much
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17 weight should that have? For the moment that sensibility has been in
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18 the driver's seat. Not sure if that's best. Another possibility is
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19 to let the metaphysical content be given voice, and then to comment on their
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20 potential relation to religious sensibilities. In other words, give
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21 more emphasis to the world views and ease up on the religious
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22 impliciations.
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24 So, let this be an exposition of the metaphysics, and leave the
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25 religious connection until later.
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27 The undone homework is the get ahold of what the narrative arc of the paper
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28 is. It's not clear to me as it stands, but the above distinction is
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29 maybe necessary for giving some clarity.
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31 Brian will have a look at classifying some paragraphs wrt to whether
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32 the are primarily addressed towards exposition of the world view, or
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33 exposition of its relation to religious sensibility.
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35 ===== 4 March =====
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37 Brian has looked at sections 1&2 of the reference version. Doing a
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38 classification seemed good, color-coding for yellow for relig-sens,
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39 blue for exposition of world-view and green for the relationship.
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41 Section 2, pp 6--13, is almost all green. On 2nd reading, Brian says
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42 "mostly redundant".
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45 Let's say that this thing should be less compressed, more relaxed,
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46 easier to access for a non-academic audience
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48 1) Forget the 'G' part and r-s, just give a non-academic
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49 version of the world-view, just stated, not so much defended;
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51 2) Another, given that, what are the implications for not r-s as
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52 such, but the issues which have been dealt with by the religious
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53 traditions
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55 I worry about both of these - that a sort of secular summary (i.e. 1)
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56 will just devolve into a secular summary of 03 (Objects book)
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58 So given limited time, we focus on (2), relating the world-view to
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59 r-s.
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61 Because although that's what R-V is trying to do, but it's pretty bad
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62 at it.
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66 Trying to mine/milk "the current state of science" to prop up or
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67 ... the new world-view (ref. O3) and from that to derive morals.
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69 But a) the current state of science is not well enough articulated
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70 to give the reader a sense of the new world-view
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71 b) and it doesn't actually make the connection
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72 to lead the reader to a morality
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74 More seriously, the curret state of science doesn't so much compel the
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75 new world view as make room for it
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77 Does this mean that O3 needs to be updated to take account of what has
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78 happened since (e.g. LMMs). And to articulate the new world view.
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80 So how, given that we can't "full on" deliver the new wv here, what is
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81 the minimum necessary to declare victory -- what GA might/should do is
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82 to just _state_ the nwv, w/o trying to convincingly/thoroughly argue
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83 for it.
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87 The picture of science as it stands is not clear enough/compelling
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88 enough to support the morals I want to draw from it.
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90 ---------New section 1-------
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91 Look, these two sets of sensibilities can't be treated
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92 as independent anymore, because the subject matter of r-s have in fact
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93 been domesticated by scientific results.
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95 For example, the views that C. was attributing to FK, are that these
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96 two world-views. Maybe 'Quietist' should be 'Compatabilist', because
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97 FK was saying science is (just) an articulation of the glory of God's
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98 creation. _Ad maioram Dei gloriam_
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100 [HST summarises: The Quietist says "yes, the scientists are doing a
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101 great job on Question 1, and it gets better all the time, but that has
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102 nothing to do with Question 2: for that I have the Church"]
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104 >>>>>>>>>>side tracks???>>>>>>>>>
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105 Is there anything like a consensus/received wisdom as to what those
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106 two forms of understanding are? On the science side, people might
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107 assume that it's causal explanations (mechanism). The (r-s?) critique
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108 of that might be that the pure mechanism story can't even account for
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109 physical objects, to say nothing of
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110 intentionality/reference/social/purpose/beauty/love/humaneness.
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112 Call the Scientific world=view the scientific _register_.
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114 We've shifted from what can be said in the scientific register to what
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115 the scientific register is incapable of explaining.
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117 [HST:
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118 The Scientific ideological _claim_ wrt the s-r is that it's complete and sufficient.
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120 The Compatablilist position is that it's self-consistent, but _not_ sufficient.
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123 [HST: what's the other one?]
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125 [HST: write a two-page version? A skeleton]
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126 <<<<<<<<<<end of side tracks>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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128 The ideological claim wrt the s-r is that it's complete and sufficient.
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130 This (that these forms of thinking are distinct) is no longer a
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131 tenable division. [I.e. the compatibilist is mistaken]
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133 These two sets of world-views are no longer tenably opposed. Because
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134 people are trying to corral a whole bunch of topics into the scientific
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135 ones.
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137 There are many topics which classically had been thought to fall into
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138 the [r-s] category which are being explored in something like the
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139 scientific one. So, bottom-line, the whole distinction needs to be
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140 rethought.
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142 -----End of new section one-----
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144 Next would be an informal account of the structure of intentionality?
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146 If we look at that the structure of intentionality in light of
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147 physical science it will turn out that the intentional stuff has
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148 properties that are associated with [r-s]. So the essentially
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149 infinite structure and complexity of the world, the fact that
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150 descriptions are partial and inadequate.
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152 Or, [BCS] has spent the last 50 years trying to formulate a theory of
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153 intentionality compatible with the physical sciences, but it turns out
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154 that the character of intentionality that you get if you do that has
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155 many properties that have classically been assumed to lie within
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156 [r-s].
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158 Or, the story [BCS] is trying to tell here is _BCS's_ world-view.
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159 It's not necessarily anyone else's. What is it?
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161 a) A story about intentionality that's compatible with physics;
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163 b) A recognition that if this is the character of intentionality,
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164 and if we are currently using it, in other words, go
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165 ...
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166 What does the world look like from within that view of
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167 intentionality?
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169 OR
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171 1) This is a place where BCS can state / give voice to his view of
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172 intentionality;
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174 2) There's a kind of first-person perspective which he's shifting
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175 to, as opposed to a third-person perspective. Perhaps not
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176 necessary, but it's at least lurking...
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180 Reverting to new section 1, says Brian later -- won't readers mostly
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181 say, of the list I offer [altruism...fidelity], "That's nothing to do
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182 with religion". Just qualifying the assertion, to, 'some [r-s] people
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183 have said that's their business'.
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184
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185 How about "these topics are topics that people have felt have a
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186 religious dimension" or "to which religious sensibilities are
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187 germane".
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188
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189 HST: What is it that a Scientist would recognise and accept as a)
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190 non-mechanism and b) relevant to their own Scientific business.
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191
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192 BCS: Non-effective relations, which the CR book is all about...
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194 HST what underlies the claim of vast significance for intentionality:
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195 BCS: All the normative predicates are underlain by non-effective
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196 relations, truth for example
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199 WARNING: BCS: It's not too late to add a sentence to that effective to
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200 the CR book.
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201
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202 HST, wrt [19]: not just truly recognise, but go about it in a way that
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203 embraces [r-s] and extends _the nature of science itself_, rather than
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204 conquer more territory for good-old-fashioned-mechanistic Science.
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205
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206 BCS: what I mean in [19] is, for example, what's altogether missed by
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207 experimental results heralding the discovery of "the contemplation
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208 neuron".
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209
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210 BCS: tring again, scientists domesticating territories not classically
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211 thought to be of science. How do we understnda this:
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213 1) as a broad-swath claim the Science (mechanistic theories) will do
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214 justice to this wider swath (HST: A land-grab).
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215 2) [HST: Expanding the understanding of what scientific explanation
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216 can look like beyond mere mechanism, to non-effective relations]
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217 2) [BCS] CR? _Meaning and Mechanism_, were it to exist: both
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218 effective and non-effective relations. This story needs told,
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219 but maybe not here, or not beyond a brief version. Or is HST
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220 confusing M&M and "the Scientific worldview" [today] vs. "the new
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221 expanded scientific worldview [which we are looking forward
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222 to/see encouraging signs of the emergence of], including, but
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223 [BCS] not only that, because also ...
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224
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225 Alternatively
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227 If we look at [the best/right-thinking] new scientific
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228 explorations of things classically thought of as the domain of
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229 [r-s], we find a (number of non-mechanistic properties) One is
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230 the theoretical centrality of the non-effective, the role of
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231 embodiment, one is the importance of indexicality.
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232
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233 or
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235 1) The essential role of the non-effective, in particular the
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236 non-efficacy of reference;
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237 2) The essential role of embodiment;
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238 2a) The inexorable role of the indexical .
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239 3) The surplusity of the referent (the way in which it always
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240 exceeds that which the reference appears to convey) [There's a
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241 lot more to be said here]
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242 4) [HST wonders about "the true flaw in determinism" == "the
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243 universe is [already] running the optimal algorithm"]
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245 Then the observation could be made that these properties are
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246 traditionally conceived as characteristic of [r-s]. [HST says: really?
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247 Well, yes, at least for (3): "I know that God is greater than I
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248 know God to be"]
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249
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250 Farewell challenge to BCS: show me why 1, 2 and 4.
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252 HST: A great privilege to have had these sessions!