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POPSStretching the Mind Stretching your mind is hard. Once we've settled on a worldview that suits us, we tend to hold on. New information is bent to fit, information that doesn't fit is discounted, and new views are resisted.
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POPSHedonist Philosopher Epicurus "Philosophers down the ages have been keen to tell the rest of us how to live and how to be happy. Certainly their advice comes to us with the lustre of intellectual achievement; it is both high-brow and high-powered, but can we understand any of it and how does it fare against modern psychological research?"
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POPSRecord Industry Goes After Personal Use So you pay for the CD and then load it into iTunes to put on your iPod and now that is illegal? Are these people so desperate for money they are now going after the end user who has already paid for it?
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POPSBooks by email or RSS For everyone but especially for Deepti and Antara. These books are available anywhere to the best of my knowledge. Public domain books are free as well as some copyright books. Other copyright books have a charge
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POPSARE YOU LIVING IN A COMPUTER SIMULATION? we need not assume that the thesis of substrate-independence is necessarily true (either analytically or metaphysically) – just that, in fact, a computer running a suitable program would be conscious
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