[ExI] The entropy of Extropy-Chat

[Gordon Swobe]

--- On Tue, 3/2/10, Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ExI] The entropy of Extropy-Chat
> To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 1:03 PM
> On 1 March 2010 22:21, Ben Zaiboc
> <bbenzai at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > No.  You have been repeatedly criticised for
> repeatedly contradicting yourself, making circular arguments
> and simply ignoring valid challenges to your ideas.
> 
> I would not criticise too much Gordon for the circularity
> of the
> threads concerned.
> 
> He has done nothing else than reiterating forever with
> different words
> statements as to what is "obvious" for him, in particular
> regarding
> some ineffable, ill-defined property of some organic
> brains, the
> existence of which should be an article of faith. This is
> hardly
> original or heretic, since it has been a widespread meme in
> the
> western culture for some 500 or 1000 years by now.
> 
> What I found surprising and made the debate mostly
> pointless is that
> many people has taken this stance as pertaining to a
> factual issue,
> engaging in the impossible task of "demonstrating" that
> such property
> could be replicated, something which is impossible by
> definition, and
> shows if anything how the dualistic mentality has still
> deep roots
> even in our ranks - and not just in Gordon.

Again someone mistakes me for a dualist. Amazing.

As far as I can tell, only Jeff Davis understands me on this point.

-gts