On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Damien Broderick <<a href="mailto:thespike@satx.rr.com">thespike@satx.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
In "English" poststructural academese that would be "avant la lettre." :)<br>
</blockquote></div><br>I see. For an Italian cultured mother-tongue speaker, this is still understandable, but he would find Latin phrase more usual...<br><br>By the way, are you the same Damien Broderick of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Outside-Gates-Science-Time-Paranormal/dp/1560259868/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204582746&sr=1-2"><span class="srTitle">Outside the Gates of Science</span></a></i>, which I have finished just minutes ago? Because near the end there are a few transhumanist references, and I have a vague recollection of having heard it mentioned on some list or other...<br>
<br>If you are, congratulations. A very disconcerting and well-researched book. I personally switched from blind, albeit strictly materialistic, faith in psi when I was a teenager, to skepticism, back to the general impression that some more in-depth and/or large scale research would be in order.<br>
<br>Stefano Vaj<br>