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Summoned from the Void

An observant reader:

Mr. D. — Not only do you and I not exist, the videos don’t either. (YouTube says “Removed by the user.”) But I think this is the same thing. It has what I think are Czech subtitles!

[Me]:  Looks like Polish to me, but hey.

We should all take Metzinger’s notion of the “Consciousness Revolution” seriously. The idea is, that mind science is on its way — though it hasn’t yet traveled very far — to demystifying the inner world as the Scientific Revolution demystified the outer one (or at least made us awfully deft at managing it). If this is right, the social and ethical consequences will be tremendous.

John Derbyshire — Mr. Derbyshire is a former contributing editor of National Review.
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