Dear Harvey,
That depends on whether all Cretans are liars!
And whether inclusionality excludes axiomatic exclusionality or axiomatic
exclusionality excludes itself.
Puffing mysteriously
Alan
PS Attached is a lyric what I wrote this evening, which you might enjoy....
----- Original Message -----
From: Harvey Sarles <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 04 October 2006 20:26
Subject: Re: Tune in and Switch on?
> 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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