Robin,

Oh, when you were talking about 007, I thought you were talking about James Bond or something? ;)

Hopefully, some day we'll have a way to move all support from an existing Nick Name to another one, and delete the no longer used one, and an ability to set a default, and so on. If you'd like I can do this move and delete your old nick name by hand in the DB.

Yes, by all means include references to more material. There are links to some of my stuff in the 3 person "consciousness is real" camp. When more people join your camp, you will likely have to negotiate which are the best references, and so on. These statements are intended to be very brief and concise statements, even just abstracts, with references to more information for more detail and clarifications, and so on. On the edit page for statements, there is a link to a help page describing the wiki formatting and how to add URL links.

I very much like the latest version.

So how does this look:

Name: Not Supernatural

Title: The Hard Problem has nothing to do with the supernatural

Statement:

The American Heritage Dictionaries has this definition for supernatural[1]:

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su·per·nat·u·ral

adj:

• Of or relating to existence outside the natural world.
• Attributed to a power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces.
• Of or relating to a deity.
• Of or relating to the immediate exercise of divine power; miraculous.
• Of or relating to the miraculous.

n:

• That which is supernatural.

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We exclude all supernatural concepts and entities, such as spirits or souls that survive death, from our discussions of the hard problem.

[1] "supernatural." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. Answers.com 20 Nov. 2007

fixall,

This exclusionary language is just the statement of what we currently believe in this camp. We respect and highly value any different point of view you may hold, as a theory that could turn out to be the one that is true, proving us to be wrong, or that you could possibly convert us to your camp some day, and so on. With the Canonizer, the more diversity the better, so thanks for all your support.

Brent Allsop

Brent,

I'm happy with this latest version too.

If it wouldn't be too much trouble to manually delete my old nickname, I'd be grateful for that.

Thanks for the clarification on links in statements. I'll do that soon.