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The Mind

The Description of the World.

The Objective Existence of Culture -

It Really is Out There

Memes
and
"replicator power"

The Survival of Constructs and Societies

Belief and Knowledge

Which is it?
Do you believe what you see or do you see what you believe?

"Seeing is believing"? No! Believing is Seeing......

The nature of "things"

Things ain't what they used to be 

everything has got to be somewhere, now! 
[not as trite as it sounds]

real materialism vs. consumer capitalism 

Compassion

More than just a feeling

What is Compassion?

But why is this important?

Compassion versus Projection

Hitler revisited

Truth
and
Scientific
method

shi shi qiu shi means
"seek truth from facts" 

• why is it so powerful? 

• the dangers of pre-scientific world views 
• is economics a science?

Consciousness
or

What it is like

to be a mental model ? .*...

 Chalmers's "Hard Problem"  far too pessimistic! 

 Raw awareness

 Awareness of being aware

 And being Unaware

 Question from Peter about paradox

 Re: it has to be the changes which constitute our experience

• Why is change necessary A?
• Why is change necessary B ?
  

   Emotion and Mood

 * I have never experienced anything else!

 Naive realism vs. paradox - paradox wins

  My Diagram of processes underlying consciousness 
also known as 'the neural correlates of consciousness'.

 Zombies are not credible!

Paradox

If the truth about our condition is far, far worse than we like to think [and it certainly is!!], can this reassuring?

And an example of why the rejection of ethics is self defeating

Debunking Ryan and Jacob's "Eternal Ambition"
a philosophy of alienation

 Human Beings have
Intrinsic Value

 Capitalist Fundamentalism

- A critique of the modern religion

 The Basic Argument 

 Intrinsic worth vs self interest -
 problems with utilitarianism 

 Algorithmic complexity versus
 Intrinsic Human Value

 The quality of existence versus
 standard of living

 Everything has a cost

 Laissez-faire capitalism is a form of religion

 The unethical nature of fundamentalist capitalism

 Banks create money

 Agency,
Decision Making
and
Personal Responsibility

[NB: this is work in progress]
 

 Causation and Decision Making

 "Decisions"

 Some common sense

 Problems?  A person is a story    Qualia?

 Provisional Summary or "How to live with oneself"

 Glossary

Democracy,

The nonviolent
resolution of Conflict

 

The human universe:

• Potentially infinite for so long as it exists 
• Murphy's Law is superstition [and good fun] but
  Entropy is real enough: the intrusion of the unexpected into our delusions of control

 Bureaucracy

[DAYTIME]

•  Stuey and the answering machine
• Centrelink - why some people take to crime
• Fossils in the law - Section 82A of ITAA 1936

Analysing dreams  .

[Debugging the self]

 The Search for Meaning

 Attachment, transference and meaning 

 Attachment per se

 Sex and evolutionary theory -
 some speculations

 From whence cometh the 28 day cycle?

 And the synchronisation?

 Out in Nature: Homosexual Behaviour in the Animal Kingdom  

 CDES

How do our politicians measure up?
What about our journalists?

 If I Were In Charge ...

... this is what I would do!

 Bicycles  

why bicycles are
 more than half of the answer!  

   White Cedar Moth or
Cape Lilac Caterpillars 

 Leptocneria reducta -

 the little hairy neighbours from hell! 

 

 Creative writing

 

 'Shortcut to Imadjinning'

 Abduction by Aliens in the Australian bush !!!!!

 or some such silly nonsense  

  ..

About the Author

Mark A Peaty