The alien hypothesis?

[Otto]

Keith McMullen wrote:

> from an empirical standpoint, all there is, is consciousness.....no 
> way to know if there's anything else.....impossible.....

I like that because it's correct, simply said and quickly read.

What's got Mr. Pinker to offer instead of language?

Finished Richard Powers' "Galathea 2.2" this week. Good book. Fits very 
well into this discussion.

Otto

>
> On Oct 20, 2005, at 4:33 PM, John Doe wrote:
>
> ....the famous
> linguistic scientist Steven Pinker, who you would
> think, given the nature of human vanity, has a vested
> interest in making his field paramount, denies that
> language is the only, or even necessarily the PRIME
> generator of conciousness, let alone All of
> Reality..
>
>


	

	
		
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