Jim, if someone questions your assumptions at the Sorbonne will you
suggest that they are jealous of you? I'd much rather hear your take
on the neuro-physical aspects of free will as per that poor wikipedia
link I gave you. What do you think of those experiments? It's
interesting to me that you detected jealousy at exactly the time that
your certainy in free will might have received a little nudge. A good
time to change the subject, right?
In addition, let me add that I'm happy for any and everyone's success
in presenting new and interesting ideas on the arts, as you are. Your
answers have been thorough and presented--generally--in a reasonable
manner, though the "lecturing to the benighted tone" you adopt does
nothing to help you. What I do find remarkable though is the magnitude
of your assumptions about the arts, the "free and democratic"
Internet, personal choice, your grasp of "traditional" poetry, and the
significance and originality of what you and others are doing. Finally,
I don't think being a code-writer makes you or anyone a poet or an
artist--but particularly a poet--in any other way than in the "poetry
is anything [ Jim ] says it is and if one or more people
agree--Q.E.D." mode. And that's the easiest one of all, though it
appears to be the ruling paradigm. What I've been suggesting to you is
that you and others rethink before you assume.
Jess
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