1. Grab the nearest book.“Sure enough, Deutsch's thought experiment, although impossible to carry out then as now, convinced him that the many worlds interpretation had to be correct." -Julian Brown, Minds, Machines and the Multiverse Posted by John at April 16, 2004 09:25 AM
2. Open to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the sentence on your blog along with these instructions.
"till I felt those rough boughs fattening towards our future" -- Mary Oliver, Twelve Moons
Actually, the fifth line on the page, which is grammatically in the middle of the last sentence of a poem that begins on the preceding page.
Welcome back. Glad you have recovered from Ada's untimely demise.
Posted by: Doctor G. at April 16, 2004 09:16 PM"This distinction is often discussed in the literature by talking of the difference between intenally and externally motivating states"
-Jonathan Dancy from his book Moral Reasons
"In spite of all his exertion the subjective thinker enjoys only a meager reward."
--kierkegaard, "truth is subjectivity," from robert solomon's reader on existentialism (for fletcher's 19th century)
Posted by: whit at April 17, 2004 09:24 AMHello all. I'm glad to be back.
Doctor G.,
Thanks for the welcome back. Have we met before? If not, I'm pleased to meet you.
Posted by: John at April 19, 2004 11:13 AM"There were certainly major changes in Kant's thought both before and after his innaugral dissertation in 1770, the last publication preceeding the yearsof intense but unpublished workleading up to the publication of the 'Critique' in 1781."
From the introduction to "The Critique of Pure Reason"
(I wish it was more inspiring.)