As the Worm Turns

I suppose if I do start blogging I will have to comment on important events, like the death of Jerry Falwell.
I remember being a youthful malcontent back in the ’80s, sitting around Perkins or IHOP drinking too much coffee… We hated Falwell back then, just as we hated Reagan. There wasn’t any particular reason we […]

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The problem of Free Will isn’t really my bag, even though the Florida State University philosophy program is highly ranked in the area. But I do know one thing: the existence of free will doesn’t entail the falsity of materialism. So when we find evidence that even lowly insects show signs of free will, this […]

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So, the question of the moment is whether to blog or not to blog.
It seems obvious that I should blog — what with me already having this blog and all. I’ve even registered the copy of ecto with which I’m writing this.
But blogging seems to freakish, so self-indulgent. Sturgeon’s Law certainly applies to blogs, although […]

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If a blog falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it still make a sound?
My answer is unequivocally no. No sound.
Why did it fall in the first place? Probably from a dearth of posting would be my guess.

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