[ExI] Red and green qualia

[William Flynn Wallace]

 the canonical tome by Bert Holldobler and E.O. Wilson, with the
unsurprising title The Ants.  spike

So you were just blown away by the canon.  bill w

On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 12:40 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *William Flynn Wallace
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Red and green qualia
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> >>…OK well, do let BillW’s tragic story be a warning.  He too retired,
> and found himself with far too much time on his hands.  It started out as
> just having a little fun, but got worse and still worse until he was found
> in the gutter, reading entire books about… cod.         spike
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> >…Guilty.  I wonder how many books Spike has on bees...... bill w
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> Well sure, but I have an excuse: friends give me those.
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> My favorite beast book isn’t on either cod or bees however.  It’s on
> ants.  It’s the canonical tome by Bert Holldobler and E.O. Wilson, with the
> unsurprising title The Ants.
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> That one is just wicked cool.  Ants are really cool beasts.  One can
> experiment on them without getting wet or raising the ire of the PETA folks
> (they refuse to stick up for bugs (but other than that, they are a
> generally commendable group of people.))
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> I did some fun stuff with ants before my neighbor hired a mystery guy
> named Jose who claimed he could rid his house completely of ants without
> even coming inside, for 100 bucks, paid in cash, no questions asked
> including any identification past “Jose.”  So… he hired Jose, who showed up
> with some mystery chemical which I think was probably dimethyl chlordane,
> sprinkled around my neighbor’s house, had some of the bootleg chemical
> remaining, so he came over and put some around my house too.  Whatever
> probably-illegal chemical he used has kept both homes antless for the past
> dozen years.
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> So… no more experiments with ants unless I go down the street.
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> Now if I get lymphoma, I have some idea of who slew me: Jose.
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> spike
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