GENIUS FORUMS

To the Group:

I think we can all agree that David is our webmaster [ = "the one who financially supports the website"; pays for the domain name, maintenance and up-dated software, etc.]

John E.D.P. Malin

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To the Group: There is an over-reliance on murky notions such as 'soul.' Layered sheathes of consciousness strike me as wrong. It has been empirically observed that when one sees text in a dream (such as on a sign post or a book's title one is holding), one is unable to retrieve it a second time lat...

Iolaus & Prince: Iolaus, you will not be disappointed with Eric D. Schneider & Dorion Sagan's book, "Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics and Life". The fact that it is published by the University of Chicago Press is a good indicator that you will not be reading garbage. Late...

Robert, Brokenhead & David: I have been asked to elaborate on some of my pilfered observations from the sources I had cited. I regret my business duties interfere with this enjoyable pasttime. I suspect a Wikipedia article can give further refinement. I will have my mathematical twin brother joi...

Arek: You are thinking sloppily! Consciousness does not have an extra-sensory dimension. The mad do perceive nebulous notions or ideations that somehow they have a pipeline into the timeless realm. Regretfully, there is no coherent, lucid notion of eternity. In our universe, time is an irreversible ...

Shahrazad:

Your observation noted !


John

Shahrazad: Left you a comment on another posting. I suppose I am using "social networking" too loosely. Indeed, we are interacting or networking in cyberspace. Since our content of sociality is philosophical topics, some would not use the term "social"; it is reserved for such ac...

David: As idle luck would have it, I just went down stairs to have some late dinner food, and picked up a copy of the Science, 21 November 2008 issue. On p. 1198 is the article, "The Weight of the World is Quantum Chromodynamics" by Andreas S. Kronfeld. It discusses vacuums that had nothin...

Carl & Shahrazad: Carl I am glad my identity has been established here well, even if my identity confirmation has still proven more elusive. Knowing the silent armies of machine program bits monitoring, shadowing, stalking & computing our movements on the internet, especially, our transactio...

Shahrazad:

I left you some comments.

I understand you had lived in Louisiana?

I trust the group can validate my claims. Their search engines should work like my search engines!

Respectfully,


John E.D.P. Malin

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Prince: What does your snide comment refer to? It was Faust that denied over-population as a myth. What are you talking about? What does "taking the piss" mean? I am in Information Technologies for a business. You are correct. There is a distinction between posting on a website ["post...

Iolaus: To answer your direct question, my interest in Eastern philosophy was motivated by the Oxford Oriental Library of Eastern Texts for philological scholarly purposes. There all the major Persian, Indian, Chinese, Tibetan, Japanese and Korean texts can be found in the original language and tran...

Carl: I am not in the Yellow Pages. You can access on line the Secretary of State's Office in Louisiana under Corporate Charters for validation of my Louisiana corporation since 1984. I just did a Google.com and Webcrawler.com search engine under my name [John E.D.P. Malin] and found 9,420 reference...

Loki, Shahrazad & Carl: Loki, I just signed up for Linkedin.com last week or so. However, you should have found a great deal more information on me than that. Shahrazad, I know of Welch, Louisiana. I think I had been there only once. I live in Acadiana as you may know the regional name of which ...

Carl: That is very strange that your Google Search does not show up for me. Where are you located? There is another Informatica Corporation in California named Informatica that was started in 1997 (I believe); I started in 1984. Since the name Informatica is neo-Latin for Computer Science, it is not...

Carl: I will deal with your questions above in more detail. I have not forgotten about you. We need to define what is meant by 'inspiration.' Some mean it for those movies that altered one's life. Others, those movies that intensely entertained one's personality, that is, brought out something or (r...

Sue: I briefly eyed the website given. The preferred books given to read, I have read seven of them previously. I suspect my business duties will deny me ample time to internalize and digest these threads in any thoughtful manner. I will ponder your words for the next few days, and see if my observa...

Dadid, Sapius & Tomas: This question, "Does Existence precede consciousness, or, vice versa (conversely)?" strangely has the frame of Satre's question, "Does existence precede essence, or conversely?" It has the smell of French 1940's Existentialism about it, doesn't it? Resp...

Brokenhead:

Thanks for that wider context. I did not even realize chromodynamicists were around 100 years ago.

John

Prince:

Well stated !

Prince Siddhartha [c. 563-c. 483 BCE] might disagree about your claim that enlightenment is self-referential and cannot be shared or possessed by others as well.


Respectfully,


John E.D.P. Malin

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To the Group: As the dons told me when I was a young man at Oxford University, "Mr. Malin you are not bright, you are merely well read." Whether this was snobbishness or astuteness on their part, my vanity does not permit me to inquire. Anyway, I have a classical library of more than 10,00...

Sue: Their ideas are fallacious for two reasons: (1.) they did not tease through what consciousness crudely or coarsely is; (2.) consciousness shuts down when the brain is dead. There is no afterlife for our delimiting consciousness. It is body or corpse specific. The human mind has an extraordinary...

Prince: Nice hearing from you? [Forgive the synaethesia; I am not hearing you, I am reading you.] I think you are correct. It is time to retire this well-worked, worn-out old mule. Deletion would be too cruel; retire it to pasture where it can comfortably die in obscurity, when it is no longer capab...

To the Group: Since experimenters have created vacuums in various sort of chambers (another triumph for the human technological mind), I fail to understand the word battles here. The 'white noise' here about 'entity' [Medieval Latin, 'entitas,' "existing thing" from present participle of L...

To the Group: There are so many comments I should enjoy commenting on, but time precludes me. I shall restrict my observations to helpful hints: Does this group really think that Scholastic ontology metaphysics and German-British idealism capture our perception of reality in 2009? This talk of exist...