tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362765413636598039.post363693957665822374..comments2024-03-26T01:31:27.219-07:00Comments on Popular Science Books: The Presence of the Past – Rupert Sheldrake ***Brian Clegghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12723555872580740773noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362765413636598039.post-76247760422203506492023-02-25T04:54:12.572-08:002023-02-25T04:54:12.572-08:00i took a year of philosophy at oxford in my youth....i took a year of philosophy at oxford in my youth. there, i got ultimately and inexorably turned off by intellectual, well, the thing you do by yourself and to yourself sometime. (i don't want to piss off the pc bots.) this "review" - which really isn't one, by any standards - masquerades as high level intellectual analysis infused with personal, cute sounding phrases like "thermodynamics malfunction alert", and is literally classified under "professional reviews." are we in an american high school or at some new age liberal college frat party? i'd love to read this reviewer's opinion about how to scientifically prove that you love someone. are you a robot? this is a rather boring opinion hit piece. how about celebrating original thought versus dissing anything you might find challenging to comprehend, for the sake of coming across smart and sarcastic and oh-so-with it. i really wanted to learn something about the book here, but i did not. moving on.tokiorihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15848294948177009990noreply@blogger.com