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For atheism is a cropless undertaking when it comes to philosophy. Atheism can contend with ethics (as Sartre did on occasion most brilliantly), but when it comes to metaphysics, atheism ends in a locked cell. It is, after all, near to impossible for a philosopher to explore how we are here without entertaining some notion of what the prior force might have been. Cosmic speculation is asphyxiated if existence came into being ex nihilo. In Sartre's case- worse. Existence came into being without a clue to suggest whether we are here for good purpose, or there is no reason whatsoever for us ?

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Vilayanur S. Ramachandran of the University of California at San Diego and his colleagues tested four patients who had experienced damage to the left angular gyrus region of their brains. All of the volunteers were fluent in English and otherwise intelligent, mentally lucid and able to engage in normal conversations. But when the researchers presented them with common proverbs and metaphors such as " the grass is always greener on the other side" and "reaching for the stars," the subjects interpreted the sayings literally almost all of the time. After being pressed by the interviewers to provide deeper meaning,  "the patients often came up with elaborate, even ingenious interpretations, that were completely off the mark," Remachandran remarks. For example, patient SJ expounded on "all that glitters is not gold" by nothing that you should be careful when buying jewelry because the sellers could rob of your money ?

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Of all murderers, the secret poisoner has always been regarded with particular abhorrence. Poisoning, especially with arsenic, causes agonising pain, which is often prolonged; the murderer does not have to risk confronting his victim physically; and the secret poisoner usually lives intimately with his victim and has easy access to his food and drink ?

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George Orwell, rarely wrong on matters of greater import, missed the point when describing how much he loathed soccer, which was "not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting." Yes, it is a species of fighting, but mostly a nonviolent version, where spectators can yet escape the language of enforced harmony. It allows a choice of identity, and though that choice can be distressing, it often isn't __and it can advance global affability as well ?

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Some people do object to using enhancement drugs. For instance, opponents often argue that they pose a kind of tragedy of the commons in which people who would otherwise not take enhancement drugs will feel forded to do so just to keep up with their competitor. But those kinds of pressures have always existed. Today, people get graduate degrees; buy new computer, and so forth to keep up. It's hard to see hoe using safe drugs to enhance performance is much different. I suspect that pharmacological enhancement will be more popular than, say, graduated school, since most of what will be involved is taking a pill with one's morning coffee ?

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Is the idea of sin dead? It sometimes feels that way. Take politicians. On a good day, they are hypocrites; on a bad day, they are liars. But only rarely do we accuse them of pride, which is, it seems to me, their real problem. The same goes for fat people. Assailed by the hateful rise of the Mir Space Station, they are victims; they require our sympathy and encouragement. But do we ever call them gluttons? Not unless we want the poor things do develop an eating disorder. In the age of self- help, even red- hot anger is an illness. Once, people fell on their knees and prayed for the strength to master it. Now, they go on courses to learn how to "manage" it. Then, if they are very lucky- or if their name is Naomi Campbell- a supermarket will offer them an advertising deal in which they can poke high- kicking, chop - socky fun at their formerly fearsome reputation ?

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Like Hobbes, Russell is convinced that political force is required to protect people from tearing each other into pieces; but unlike him, he regards the best bet as democracy. He is not starry-eyed about it and disputes the now fashionable, wrong- headed doctrine that democracies never wage aggressive wars ?

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Ninety-nine years age. John Philip Sousa predicted that recording would lead to the demise of music. The phonograph, he warned, would erode the finer instincts of the ear, end amateur playing and singing, and put professional musicians out of work. "The time is coming when no one will be ready to submit himself to the ennobling discipline of learning music,"he wrote. "Everyone will have their ready made or ready pirated music in their cupboard. " Something is irretrievably lost when we are no longer in the presence of bodies making music, Sousa said. "The nightingale's song is delightful because the nightingale herself gives it forth" ?

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One can perceive the preservation unto eternity of the human illusions of free will, self and continuity of consciousness are a good thing- or one can view it as a burden, like the preservation unto eternity of stomach aches bad tempers and pimples. An equally valid, alternate perspective holds that human style individual minds, ridden with illusions as they are, are merely an intermediary phase on the way to the development of really interesting cognitive dynamics ?

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The unnatural deaths of popular icons have inspired bizarre conspiracy theories__ and the occasional Elton John balled __ but James Dean's followers take their obsession in another direction. They consider Dean's death part of his allure: By dying young, he preserved himself in amber, a peter pan in jeans and a red windbreaker. "Dean died before he could fail, before he lost his hair or his boyish figure, before he grew up, Donald Spoto writes in his admiring biography. Fair enough. But what lurks behind the celebration of the star's unsullied youth is a fear that, has he lived, Dean couldn't have topped what he'd accomplished by the age of 24 and might even have tarnished those teats ?