[PD] CVs

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 23 May 2011, Chris McCormick wrote:

> Millions of people running the Santa Claus program on their brains. We 
> should pay attention to this real entity because it has a huge effect on 
> the GDP of countries in the western world, every year.

But gift-giving on Christmas was common well before Coca-Cola introduced 
Santa, isn't it ?

> I think it's a mistake that very intelligent people make in dismissing 
> things that are "just ideas". For some reason people think that ideas 
> are something independent of the physical world, but they are not. Ideas 
> physically occupy people's brains and make people change the world.

But I'm not saying that ideas are something independent or unimportant !

> I don't think human thought takes place in some magic fairy land. I 
> think it takes place in the same physical reality that we all occupy. 
> I'm not really sure why this idea is contraversial.

Is it controversial ? Perhaps it's a matter of stating that concept in a 
way that it doesn't get taken for something else.

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