http://mindprod.com/index.html Changes to the non technical portion of the mindprod.com website concerning politics, ethics, religion, the environment and animal rights en-ca feedback@mindprod.com (Roedy Green) feedback@mindprod.com (Roedy Green) http://mindprod.com/jgloss/rss.html 180 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:34:50 GMT HTML Static HTML Macros Copyright Canadian Mind Products 2008 http://mindprod.com/image/rss/jgloss.png 88 31 http://mindprod.com/index.html http://mindprod.com/deepthoughts/musings.html#LIFEAFTERDEATH 36f3b973260f35c530e046d0bded9da0 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Some thoughts on the belief in life after death. http://mindprod.com/politics/harper.html#DEBATES f4fff9d812aed84c2867709c604ba4b1 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Details of the federal election debates on 2008-10-01 and 2008-10-02. http://mindprod.com/deepthoughts/musings.html#DUMPED3 9a6d33281798232e7fd423db4d4aa516 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT All animals, male and female, including human, look for mates with the highest status/fitness. It is the Darwinian imperative to ensure survival of the offspring. So when you are dumped, unless your bad behaviour is obvious, it is not as though you were left, but rather that your mate found someone more attractive whom they believed they had a chance of landing. There is no great shame in this. http://mindprod.com/deepthoughts/musings.html#CUTFLOWERS ad29f6160ff045bd64430f1199c0ccc7 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Whenever I see a beautiful young person, or either sex, I feel a terrible sadness, similar to the feeling I have beholding a vase of cut flowers, knowing the freshness will last but days. http://mindprod.com/deepthoughts/musings.html#ROUTINE 906423d60d3e9d2c31d161b61dfa08f4 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Most people resent routine repetitive tasks like house cleaning. Computer scientists have a different way of looking at it. Computers are masters of routine — repeating the same steps billions of times a second. The more something is repeated, the more it pays off to figure out how to do it perfectly. You can think of a routine activity as a second and third, and … chance to correct your mistakes. http://mindprod.com/deepthoughts/musings.html#CONTINUITY 069e473551dcb84a52faab20652f033c Sun, 21 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT When people tackle the thorny problem of consciousness I think they make four errors. http://mindprod.com/deepthoughts/musings.html#MAMMALISTS fcb512baad27ba7cfd94492fadc01736 Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Consider the reaction to a man putting sharp hooks in balls of cat food, feeding them to kittens and jerking them into the air for amusment, or farmers pouring scalding water on horses to kill them, or teens running over puppies in their cars to see how many they can squish. http://mindprod.com/politics/harper.html 95f816b2a976f65716123b2aaeba4d35 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Why I want the Conservatives defeated in the Canadian 2008 federal election. http://mindprod.com/deepthoughts/musings.html#FERMI2 1e0737c39276d23aa59d1af2f3b31386 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT The famous physicist Fermi noted that if there were even the slimmest chance of a technological civilisation evolving, their presence should be visible throughout the universe. Instead there is nothing but a great silence. What are we to make of that? Here are nine possible explanations. http://mindprod.com/ethics/heroes.html 0aef1f55d1a615bccd15a964f555ec3c Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT I discovered one of my planetary heroes Ray Kurweil has been using his genius to create advanced weaponry for the US military. He is a moral idiot. The USA already has far too much military dominance of the planet. These sci-fi weapons described in his book The Singularity Is Near will give the US military absolute control and turn the planet into a police state that would make Stalin cream. Kurzweil’s vanity got the better of his judgement. I have removed him from the list of honour. http://mindprod.com/deepthoughts/musings.html#SENTIMENTALMALES 920a643dc3f0a22bd720d2fa404e7e70 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Women scorn shabbily dressed males, or men who drive old cars. They fail to understand that men are sentimental about clothes and cars.