[extropy-chat] Scrooge as evidence of rationalism's failure

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

Dickens did not invent them, they were already living in the Jungian
collective subconscious mind. And Dickens, maybe he was/is/willbe a
sim like the rest of us.
G.


On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:17:08 -0600, Damien Broderick
<thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> At 09:11 AM 12/15/2004 -0600, John Wright wrote:
> 
> >Real skeptics do
> >not take conclusions as articles of faith.
> >
> >"You don't believe in me," observed the Ghost.
> >
> >"I don't." said Scrooge.
> 
> Interestingly, the Ghost was made up. Scrooge was made up. Charles Dickens
> invented them. (Indeed, IIRC, the Ghost was a dream *inside the made-up
> world of Scrooge*.)
> 
> What a very peculiar argument this is.
> 
> Damien Broderick