Needs - identification - desire: it's a transition over some period of time. Forgive me if I don't recall minute-to-minute events of my first few week...
Wrong order. Had needs. Learned to identify them. Received appropriate care. Developed desire. Learned to differentiate and express desires. I may hav...
They'd shoot you dead, just for being incomprehensible. Red-blooded, gun-totin' 'Merickans hate it when they don't understand something. As for Pratch...
He'd had a number of run-ins with these guys over policy decisions while he was a member of the Assembly. He was smarter than they, had much influence...
Yes. The breathing came automatically, as did theneed for nourishment; part of the organic package in which my DNA finds expression. But the desire fo...
No. It can analyze and replicate very well. That's what we use it for. I'm saying it's impossible for an unconscious entity, however intelligent and p...
Not that foggy! It's something you have to be conscious to know it exists. To a rock, a plant doesn't "seem" to desire sunlight: a rock doesn't know, ...
Politicians are in no position to set moral standards. They can make speeches and pass legislation, but they can't be your conscience. No, that's diff...
The body's willing, but the mind balks. If there is some underlying motive in an unconscious entity, it was programmed in by a conscious one. Then the...
That was precisely my objection. The operative word is "seem". Conscious beings with desires look at a plant see change in its orientation so that it ...
And do you, Chatty, have the motivation to expend whatever resources it takes to schlepp across the galaxy and steal it from somebody? Do you, without...
Ah, a muse for every purpose. I suppose... Me, I prefer one familiar spirit, even not a particularly powerful one. (My top favourite Terry Pratchett b...
No,no! That's not what I found intriguing. I was intrigued, in spite of that, by the cinematic and structural care that went into making the series. T...
Here is a father with three adult daughters, whom he claims to love and whose love he demands, and he has no frickin' idea who they are! So he falls f...
Nevertheless, intriguing. Strong echoes of Orson Welles. It also stirred memories of Gunsmoke and The Rifleman. Of course, the TV frontier towns of my...
They played with that idea in TNG, Voyager and DS9. The time travel episodes were some of the most fun, so I was happy to suspend disbelief. I sure wo...
Parfois, une pipe n'est qu'une pipe.... Only someone accustomed to television imagery would think that of Freud. Now you got me all worked up about it...
That's what I thought you meant. So, the handshake is not an agreement to undertake a common enterprise or or end a conflict. Someone tells you that t...
Minute 1 of day 1, get rid of those piles of klunky hardware they substituted for computers. Even STNG still has half a dozen big tablet things to con...
Also a different kind of arrogance and a different kind of divine retribution. There is a long tradition in European literature of fathers demanding t...
ugh! wallotext - edit Certainly they do. But the playwrights were there first, before psychiatry was invented and before the father confessor became a...
I had to take Shakespeare in high school, a play of appropriate difficulty to each year, from Julius Caesar to King Lear. I didn't care for Lear - ove...
I'm not a handsy person, either, though I would not scorn someone's hand if offered in good faith. Lowest level of assent calls for a curt nod. Physic...
A larger problem for young people is that life experience blurs into, is confused with and sometimes subsumed by virtual, electronic life. It's not a ...
That has always been the function of public entertainment. When we discuss Greek tragedy or epic poetry, we sometimes forget that it was big business ...
Religious institutions no longer supply people with the comfort and reassurance they once did. I should say, most don't, though some still provide a w...
I wasn't talking about satisfaction, but specifically about the cathartic effect of melodrama and tragedy. Our entertainments don't just come in the f...
One problem, these guys are way out of date. There was once tragic theater and poetry to purge the baser emotions of the highly refined audience. The ...
Another thing about physical books: they don't need to be plugged in or recharged; they keep working when the power is cut off by weather, malfunction...
That's nice if you have servants, novices (or a compliant wife) to take care of your physical needs, and then you need not occupy yourself with any ot...
All entertainment is very much about its content. Like gladiatorial contests, blood sacrifice, public execution, bullfights, etc. Humans have always b...
And yet we revel in the cultural renderings of it: expensive funerals, Hallowe'en, silly movies and tv serials about undertakers, zombies, etc; scary ...
Given that the majority of people still subscribe to religions with a promise of continuity - afterlife or rebirth - I can't see the brain having chan...
You never know what you're paying for with taxes. You are told some things; you see some effects of government spending, but you can never find out ho...
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