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Friday, December 30th, 2005

Seeing Red

The second of the arguments against a materialistic theory of mind that I’m going to debunk is based on an article by Frank Jackson, “What Mary didn’t know”. In it, there is a colour scientist, Mary, who has a full materialistic account of colour processing available, she knows everything there is to know about that. […]

Friday, December 30th, 2005

Jeffrey Eugenides – Middlesex (2)

A fiction so convincing that I needed to remind myself several times that I was not reading an autobiographical account. The story of a hermaphrodite growing up in Detroit, and his/her family’s history stretching back into Turkey are told in epic breadth, and with a lot of fascinating historic detail. The narrative holding it all […]