Welcome to Philosophy Talk | Philosophy Talk. Reality Principles: An Interview with John R. Searle. In an intellectual scene filled with critics of the Enlightenment's quest for a coherent understanding of the way the world works, philosopher John R. Searle has become a high-profile defender and exemplar of Enlightenment methods. A professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of 10 books, he attacks big questions--the nature of reality, the mind/body problem, the nature of consciousness--in what he sees as a continuation of the Enlightenment's scientific and philosophical program....
I Cthulhu. Or What's A Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me Doing In A Sunken City Like This (Latitude 47° 9' S, Longitude 126° 43' W)? Cthulhu, they call me. Great Cthulhu. Nobody can pronounce it right. Are you writing this down? Very well, then. I was spawned uncounted aeons ago, in the dark mists of Khhaa'yngnaiih (no, of course I don't know how to spell it. Those were the days. Or rather the nights, on the whole. I never knew my parents. My father was consumed by my mother as soon as he had fertilized her and she, in her turn, was eaten by myself at my birth. Don't look so shocked, Whateley. Which reminds me, did they remember to feed the shoggoth? I spent my first few thousand years in those swamps.
So passed my youth. And then one day -- I believe it was a Tuesday -- I discovered that there was more to life than food. It meant that he did not intend to dine that visit, and that we could talk. Now that is a stupid question, even for you Whateley. We are going out, said Hastur to me. We? I thought as much. Covil Filosófico.
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