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Are Zombies Possible? They're Not Just Possible, They're Actual. We're All Zombies. Nobody Is Conscious — Not In The Systematically Mysterious Way That Supports Such Doctrines As Epiphenomenalism. *it Would Be An Act Of Desperate Intellectual Dishonesty To Quote This Assertion Out Of Context!

Cults And Prophets Proclaiming The Imminent End Of The World Have Been With Us For Several Millennia, And It Has Been Another Sour Sort Of Fun To Ridicule Them The Morning After, When They Discover That Their Calculations Were A Little Off. But, Just As With Marxists, There Are Some Among Them Who Are Working Hard To "hasten The Inevitable," Not Merely Anticipating The End Days With Joy In Their Hearts, But Taking Political Action To Bring About The Conditions They Think Are The Prerequisites For That Occasion.

The Chief Trick To Making Good Mistakes Is Not To Hide Them - Especially Not From Yourself. Instead Of Turning Away In Denial When You Make A Mistake, You Should Become A Connoisseur Of Your Own Mistakes, Turning Them Over In Your Mind As If They Were Works Of Art, Which In A Way They Are.

Words Have A Genealogy And It's Easier To Trace The Evolution Of A Single Word Than The Evolution Of A Language.

When People Ask Me What Philosophy Is, I Say Philosophy Is What You Do When You Don't Know What The Right Questions Are Yet. Once You Get The Questions Right, Then You Go Answer Them, And That's Typically Not Philosophy, That's One Science Or Another. Anywhere In Life Where You Find That People Aren't Quite Sure What The Right Questions To Ask Are, What They're Doing, Then, Is Philosophy.