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Peter Gray

['Member']Joined: October 04, 2025 at 10:52Last active: February 23, 2026 at 13:592 discussions8 comments
Location: Isle of Man

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Daytime job: medical doctor. Amateur philosopher.

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Sandy Denny

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"Who knows where the time goes?" Sandy Denny said that, and she was not actually a philosopher, she was a folk singer, but it's a nice quotation anyway.

Discussions (2)

"My Truth"

February 08, 2026 at 13:24 123 comments Philosophy of Language

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In: "My Truth"  — view comment
It's interesting that you should mention estrangement. "My truth" seems to be particularly prevalent in that area, especially by adult children who ha...
February 10, 2026 at 17:10
In: Economic growth, artificial intelligence and wishful thinking  — view comment
The biggest chunk of emissions in those charts is from China, but we (in the UK) ought to take ownership of a lot of that, because most of our manufac...
October 24, 2025 at 14:33
In: Economic growth, artificial intelligence and wishful thinking  — view comment
Coincidentally, here is an article from this morning's BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) news: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62exx578lzo I...
October 24, 2025 at 06:30
In: Economic growth, artificial intelligence and wishful thinking  — view comment
You've hit the nail squarely on the head. Generally speaking, economists like to talk about things like inflation, availability of lending, interest r...
October 20, 2025 at 13:31
In: Economic growth, artificial intelligence and wishful thinking  — view comment
I wouldn't describe future projections of human population growth as being particularly like either "tragedy of the commons" or "heat death of the uni...
October 16, 2025 at 13:33
In: Economic growth, artificial intelligence and wishful thinking  — view comment
The way I look at it, it is simultaneously very complex and very simple. Consider crumpling up a piece of paper and throwing it up in the air. Calcula...
October 16, 2025 at 10:30
In: Economic growth, artificial intelligence and wishful thinking  — view comment
I don't see it so much as a "belief", more a statement of the obvious. All economies have to be based on something, and in any finite system, that som...
October 16, 2025 at 06:22
In: Economic growth, artificial intelligence and wishful thinking  — view comment
Surely there can be no example of perpetual economic growth, because by definition, to provide an example of perpetual economic growth, you would need...
October 15, 2025 at 21:20
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