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Some laypeople (like me, for example) have trouble seeing the difference between these two views--between saying consciousness doesn't exist and saying it is nothing more than the brain. In any event, both versions of strict materialism put a damper on cosmic speculation. As strict materialism became more mainstream...
The debate over whether the computer or the TV set will become the principal means of bringing the electronic highway into the home is a game everyone in the information industry plays. One side argues that the familiar ``boob tube'' will hold its ground. ``The TV set will continue to...
MC:You tell me. Whenever. And I think that the so-called "mob" in Rhode Island is also ambiguous and passe. Those guys aren't doing that stuff anymore, as far as I know. It's a thing of the past. There were no rumblings. Everyone would think someone was...
But most big companies are glorified mutual funds themselves these days, shuffling parts as if they were stock portfolios. Like middle-class "financial services," corporate "mergers and acquisitions" are a permanent feature of American capitalism. Any pretense that they advanced some particular theory of corporate efficiency -- that small companies are...
After all, the desert thing is so passe. Caribbean is in. Stunning new choreography and set, guaranteed to blow your socks off!