Knives and Philosophy

Jul 23, 2008 16:27

If a person is tied to a chair, earplugs in and blindfolded so that they cannot see or hear anything, and I come into the room and stab them in the leg, do they feel it or bleed? I was reading about objectivism and I thought it was kind of interesting, how things exist regardless if they can be percieved, how self can only exist if there is an ( Read more... )

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dv_girl July 24 2008, 04:09:32 UTC
Only very tangentially related (because it has knives in it and I'm talking to you)

I thought you might enjoy this short story. http://media.rawvoice.com/pseudopod/media.libsyn.com/media/pseudopod/Pseudo096_TheCuttingRoom.mp3 The ending is... interesting... Not really worksafe unless you happen to work in a morgue or something.

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