So I managed to stay with Gene all the way through this post on materialism, determinism and free will. Well-written, provocative, massaged my brain a bit. I also made it through this post by Will Wilkinson that inspired Gene’s post. Same attributes as Gene’s, only I’d “intriguingly personal.”

Then I opened Gene’s comments box on the post. There, Glen Whitman and Will had an exchange that left me gasping for air.

By the time Julian weighed in, I was drowning. And by the time I got through Julian’s post, I was about twelve feet over my head, submerged in a sea of hypotheticals, elusive premises and flying rodents. The kid’s name is going to be an adjective someday.

And it seems like every time I venture over to Julian’s site when he’s posted something incredibly academic and thick (which almost always begins with a phrase like “Imagine your brain is in a vat…”, or, “Pretend you’ve just made Xerox copies of everything you know…”), I return to my site and find that my latest post is something like…

“Here’s a funny joke about boobs…”

Oh well. Check out Julian’s investigative work on the John Lott affair, as well as an interesting discovery about the son of the late John Rawls.

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