Alan,
That's what Bill Clinton claimed? Can we believe both of you?
Harvey
On Oct 4, 2006, at 6:58 AM, Alan Rayner wrote:
> Dear Karl,
>
> Might I suggest you try a few more joints?
>
> Why put those inspirations and reflections into a straightjacket?
> What's so scary about them?
>
> Which is more scary, the inspirations or the straightjacket?
>
>
> Just teasing (but perhaps creatively)!
>
>
> Best
>
> Alan
>
>
> PS In case anyone is wondering, notwithstanding my mycological
> knowledge, I have never experimented with 'mind-altering' drugs, apart
> from one or two puffs on a joint whose smoke I couldn't inhale and
> didn't really want to - my brain chemistry already being as it is and
> is not.
>
>
>
>
> --On 03 October 2006 19:57 +0100 Karl Rogers
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Ian,
>>
>> "The clue is in the sentence, I used though. Try Hofstadter's "Godel,
>> Esher, Bach" Or Hofstadter and Dennett's "Mind's I" collection."
>>
>> I thought that Hofstadter was the name of all the German beer you
>> clearly
>> must have been drinking!
>> But seriously, I have read both books, many years ago. I enjoyed them
>> very much and found them to be highly inspiring. Yes, I agree that
>> they
>> take slow reading and quiet reflection -- and a few joints helped as
>> well.
>> Whether such inspirations and reflections llead to wisdom, madness,
>> somewhere else entirely, or all three is another question!
>> Karl.
>>
>>
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