My Book

Holy jumpin' golly Moz

At risk of repe, w/o Prof some of us [very few like me] would be interested in your background; Age, sex, Ed, Rel, interests, nat'l, etc, & what it was that drew you to a2k in particular

I too was apparently a writer: At age 86, due apparently owing to oncoming Alzies, I suddenly found mysef an old man, with little or no 'mem' of 85, 84, 83, etc; but I must'v writ also, judging by the stacks of rejection slips I 'cumm'd over the eons

Ya sure you haven't published it in A2K before hand?

Fil I hear ya. More'n more comin' to realize

Here is a short summary of my book for anyone pressed for time:

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Boy, Moz, that's me 'ever !!

I hope you become famous, love ya for ur excellent 'Glish and ur 'pin's, which correspond to mine thru & thru !!

Hope unlike me, sittin ' here 'pon a pils of Rej slips, you sell ur book. Honest, I never zaggerate, wel'mos' never

Still I bitch 'bout Sftw G'ch's, recently a poster for 'notgher'n, ne never 'gain get printed

'less the splendid, worldwide recognized Victorville, Ca Daily Press, having accepted hundreds of my Letters to the Editor

I 'd thought 't'wuz 'cause I'm such a good writer, but my BH sez it's 'cuz they use 'em on days they're short

Too many paragraphs. Can you summarize it in one sentence? I could have a try... Let Pollyanna be your guide to happiness!

Here is one more person's response and my reply to him from the summary of my book:

Other Person's Response: Perhaps explain what makes them qualitatively different from other biochemical thoughts, while you're at it. I understand that we put one in one box, and the other in a different box...but I strongly suspect that this is folklore and fairy tale. A product of centuries of inability to see the workings of our own mind.

My Reply: The biochemical emotions are forms of motivation (drive). For example, when you feel sexually aroused, that is a sex drive. But when you don't feel sexually aroused and having the thought of being sexually aroused cannot put you back into that sexually aroused state, then having the thought of being sexually aroused would just be empty words. They would not give you any sex drive. That is why our rational value judgments cannot be any real emotions (drive/motivation) while it can only be our biochemical emotions which are the real emotions (drive/motivation).

The same idea applies to value judgments. Our rational value judgments are not any real value judgments and it can only be our biochemical emotions which are the real value judgments. People are mistaking their rational value judgements as being the real emotions and real value judgments when it was really their biochemical emotions all along which were the real emotions and the real value judgments. Even the idea of our biochemical emotions being value judgments is supported by skeptics and neuroscientists. I present one quote from one of these skeptics/neuroscientists in my book. I will just go ahead and present it here though. Although, I disagree with his idea that our rational value judgments are real value judgments:

My reaction too, Trix, but guess was bein' too polite

The problem, right off the bat, is that any and all Perspectives/'world views' exist for but a single moment.

And as far as defending one Perspective (Truth is ALL inclusive!), all Perspectives are unique, and all Perspectives perceive the same One (unchanging, all inclusive) Reality/Truth!
All are necessary for all Reality/Self! to be experienced/Known (to Consciousness), even the 'looniest' of so-called hallucinations!