On 11/27/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert Bradbury</b> <<a href="mailto:robert.bradbury@gmail.com">robert.bradbury@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>one of the fundamental questions enshrined in Max's extropian principles. Do you base your existence on "rational thought" or not?
<br><br>So *long* as people believe and act on the basis of nothing more than their thought about a thought (a belief) we have problems.
<br></div></blockquote></div><br>Could you clarify? I took the first sentence to mean it is good to 'base existence' on "thought." The second sentence indicates that believe and action on "thought about a thought" is a problem.
<br><br>Do you believe... (hmm)... think... (hmm)... logically deduce (?) that someone like <a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel/">Hegel</a> (&<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel">
wikipedia</a>) should be considered an extropian of the first case, or a trouble-maker of the second case?<br><br><br>