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Check it: evad4you cooked up a Dr. Smax song, "The Trip Sexy Dr Smax Loop" with these lyrics.

MP3 available here:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/evad4you/87834.html

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I'm checking my MSNhotmail and then the MSN popup announces "Only on MSN - How Jesus became Christ: The Epic Story" and I'm all like "Only?" and  "Only on MSN?? What about The Bible or, like Mel Frickin' Gibson!?!?"

And God is all like

Dear Bill Gates,

Here come the lightning bolts.

Love,

I Am Who Am

Zap!

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What are you conscious of when you have conscious experiences?

Various arguments in contemporary philosophical work on consciousness boil down to alleged conceptual connections between 'conscious' and 'conscious of'. To wit, some philosophers hold as pre-theoretically obvious what we can call "The Transparency Thesis":

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I've been enjoying recently thinking about the possible significance of polling in philosophical thought. Consider the following relatively standard way of arguing against relativism (we'll start with relativism about truth, but this might equally apply with minor modifications to, e.g.  moral relativism or relativism of philosophical worth to a ( Read more... )

Opinion polls do not reliably assess philosophical worth ( Read more... )