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Does all conscious (even synthetic) life need to be driven by a pleasure motive? This seems to be Nick’s claim. I expect the way this argument plays out is that, e.g., altruism is defined to “feel good”. It is tautological.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Sep 16, 2021, at 12:22 PM, thompnickson2@gmail.com wrote:<br>
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<p class="quotation">some of us might be writing only to hear ourselves gumflap?<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Pfffft! All of us are and all of us aren’t.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For my own case, I am writing here to develop my thinking, so that it may someday coalesce into something that I publish, with, or without, others. That that enterprise is not entirely nugatory is evident in my writing which is both stable
and evolving and usually does involve others. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I stipulate that you all may be being forced to serve in a cause you may not have signed up for. I guess this is the point where a glen would say, “Live with it!”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nick Thompson<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com"><span style="color:#0563C1">ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Steve Smith<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 16, 2021 3:06 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> friam@redfish.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] Could this possibly be true?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 9/16/21 10:35 AM, <a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com">
thompnickson2@gmail.com</a> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just so’s you know, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I took it from this email thread, where it pretty much stood alone.
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<p class="MsoNormal">And remember. Y ou (we) aren’t just writing to one another. You (we) are writing to 300 other people.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>And according to Glen a few threads in the weft-weave back, some of us might be writing only to hear ourselves gumflap? I think that (his characterization or my characterization of his characterization or both) might be hyperbolic.<o:p></o:p></p>
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