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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