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In article <u%Ooo.11072$MQ1.10758@newsfe22.iad>,
DavidW <no@email.provided> wrote:
>|-|ercules wrote:
>> "DavidW" <no@email.provided> wrote
>>
>>
>> I thought you were this psychic newbie trying to work things out.
>
>That's right.
>
>> All you're doing is avoiding the simple terms on the webpage and
>> using every skeptic copout and abuse protocol.
>
>I haven't abused you at all.
>
>> Every time someone is polite and says they're interested in
>> paranormal claims and such, within 24 hours they join the mob and
>> start abusing me with all the bullshit lazy skeptics copouts.
>
>I haven't abused you at all.
>
>> What's the difference if you think of 3 numbers or think of 3
>> questions?
>
>The difference is that it's much easier to think of 3 numbers than three Yes/No 
>questions I'm genuinely interested in knowing the answers to. Questions I am 
>interested in are not Yes/No:
>1. How was the universe created?
>2. What is consciousness?
>3. What are all of Nature's physical laws?
>
>You haven't explained why my Melbourne Cup horse no. questions do not qualify. 
>For obvious reasons I am very interested in those.

I asked for the winners of the upcoming Chicago marathon, which he also
refused to answer on the grounds that... okay, I don't recall what his
beef was with those.

>You would get a lot more takers if your requirements were simpler.

You have to answer questions with vague answers or one for which neither
you nor anyone else can verify an answer.  Herc then reads a sentence from
a book that sorta, kinda, maybe relates to the question and from which you
can extract something resembling an answer if you are sufficiently flexible.

Not that you can verify that this answer is correct, of course.

So, your consciousness question might be rephrased as:

2. Is consciousness a purely physical phenomena?

To which Herc would "answer": I don't mind if you disagree.

He would take the word "mind" as an indication that the question was related
and also as an answer to the question - there is a "mind" as well as the
"brain", so consciousness is not a purely physical phenomena.

Now that I've resolved that question for you, I hope you can move on to
more important work.

Alan
-- 
Defendit numerus