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Sentience and Immortality

At the beginning of his apocalyptic novel Star Maker, Olaf Stapledon describes his protagonist as sitting on the hillside above his home, racked with doubts about himself and the stability of his marriage, when, suddenly, he has the transcendant out-of-body … Continue reading

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The End of Religion In One Paragraph

Following from my earlier post, it strikes me that if adherents of a faith (any faith) are offended by (say) the placement of the components of a cheap plastic toy – or a movie, or a theater show, or a … Continue reading

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