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Reads like a section from a feature-length caper. We get a bit of the team dynamics and maybe the corporate overlords will prove to be minor character...

This emotionally charged event gets dropped into a hullabaloo within the church and I come away from the story with an aha moment: another trauma in t...

A story in the spirit of Jonathan Swift. Does the shock value reside mainly in the language of the payoff, or does it reside mainly in the naked truth...

Life in this story is filled with appearances, suggestions, intimations and some fantastic possibilities, depending upon the subject doing the perceiv...

The action is grand scale, engaging, dramatic and, all of this features in a painless, quick read. As the fast-accruing wealth of struck reactions ind...

The author takes great care in the work of world building, and the narrator takes great relish in the telling of it. Each sub-story offers some measur...

This narrator ruminates on the ultimate veil; it’s the one partitioning life from death. On the side of life, there’s an intricate mesh of the living ...

Story reads like a treatment for an actual story yet to be written. It needs specific situations and events playing out in real time. The protagonist ...

It’s up there with the New Yorker prize winners. It packs a punch with only a page or two.

You're right. Getting widespread, general interest in response to art is not easy to do. I wish the general public had your generosity. Basing a story...

What you say about drama is spot on. It differs from comedy in the greater degree to which its high stakes are obvious. Since laughter is a feel good ...

If it does, more than likely you know that, so it doesn't. If what the story has to say is vague, probably you shouldn't expect too much of a response...

In my post to Gnomon, I'm continuing our debate about his interpretation of e=mc^2and, additionally, his application of his interpretation to his argu...

Here's why I read your examination of Einstein's equation as commentary on the invisibility of m and c^2: Einstein's E=MC^2 equation of invisible Ener...

You felt fear before exposing yourself with words? That's a good sign for your story. Maybe it's full of authentically personal stuff with high emotio...

A pattern, when it's catchy, presents itself a thing worth keeping. I delight in sweet melodies arising from ingenious tunes. Might your experience of...

I agree with your first sentence and I believe it to be a sufficient explanation of our recognition of order within the matter_energy realm. I believe...

You have raised the central question: Where is the starting point of order? If we can accept, within the confines of our discussion here, that number ...

You argue that our phenomenal universe of forces and material objects has an innate order founded upon principles likewise innate. You go on to declar...

Do you believe a brain confined to a vat will eventually start counting?

You have described Einstein's equation as an expression of three states of being: a) invisible; b) tangible; c) non-dimensional. On one side of the eq...

Kant's maxim is one of your foundational premises. In the middle of the night, en route to the loo, you stub your toe on the bedpost. This is an insta...

Question - Are not both mass and the speed of light invisible? If I remember correctly, you deem both mind and consciousness as being immaterial. My n...

Your language paints a picture of a man who knows himself. Since, as you say, and also as you say, the reader knows, from your two statements, that, i...

Well said. This conveys, in a nutshell, something akin to the essence of what I been arguing regarding the scope of physicality and its extension into...

I've been saying math started when humans caught onto patterns based on numbers of physical things. Fingers, being a permanent and handy instance of c...

Firstly, your piece on the onticity of numbers has been very helpful to me. Thanks for doing the work and then offering it up to me on a silver platte...

What you claim has the strong fragrance of the welcome familiar and the commonplace good, both backed by seeming rigorous logic. Let's say out in the ...

:cool: Absolutely no grief from me. I much appreciate the hard work done by you and the other facilitators of this short story fest. More power to you...

I’m thinking math began when cave people looking at their fingers started seeing repeatable patterns. Since matter is neither created nor destroyed, w...

When do our stories get published to the website, shortly after new year's day?

No. Im sufficiently repentant to know I've got no cause for being disdainful about anything. Holism is one of your main themes? What are some specific...

The practice of reasoning by humans, being phenomenal, accommodates direct observation via the senses. Call to mind Rodin's Thinker. A child stands be...

And perhaps you're saying things exist that are experienceable not in the conventionally empirical sense, but rather in the cognizable sense.

In the above statement, Wayfarer didn't have numbers in his brain, but rather had them nested in Plato's Realm of Ideals, which his brain had nested i...

If you're willing to elaborate, please do so.

So, you are you convinced that when you look at a pair of diamonds encased in the platinum ring encircling your beloved's finger, no part of that crus...

I acknowledge and respect your substantial accomplishments as a professional architect. As I understand architecture, you are a geometrician grounded ...

Hence, as your statements may suggest (emphasis in bold mine), only an active mind can generate and then process information? Signs themselves are gat...

You beg off from the arduous path of scientific rigor by drawing a hard boundary around your philosophical postulations, and yet all of them seem to b...

I have a question about it. Both = referring to two things regarded and identified together; used before the first of two alternatives to emphasize th...

It looks like you're trying to have it both ways: you acknowledge that spoken dialogue is both inflected grammatically (tense, mood, number, case and ...

The disjunction: science or philosophy, with respect to consciousness studies, runs parallel to the disjunction: physics or math, with respect to Rela...

Mental phenomena inhabit the natural world as material realities. Your language implies mind is a component of matter because in your thinking about i...

The relationship between Book_Reader, as described by you above is Book ¬? Reader: no info passes between them. Also, as described by you above: In th...

This effect is generated by what cause? What is the location of this effect? (If you're theorizing an effect without a cause, elaborate essential deta...

You think I've become ensnared within physicalism? You talk of mind emergent from matter. How does a non-physical entity emerge? Is not emergence, lik...

"Intelligible" simply means "able to be understood," as with the example of a book. Do you think something devoid of information can be understood? Re...

The upshot of our dialogue so far, as I see it, involves two cruxes: 1) We have a disjunction to evaluate: We know matter via mind, or we know mind vi...

Let me start by asking a question pertaining to each of the fragments highlighted in bold italics. Fragment 1: Cosmic Mind is an uncreated eternal? Fr...