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Sent: 02/07/2010. Why you shouldn't join 37 Degrees gym! Xxxx, Thank you for sending that through, though, I have no idea why you did – it appears 37 degrees consistently does not listen. As it appears you are unable to deal with this I would appreciate it if you could pass this to your superior at 37 degrees, copying me in so I know you have acted on this and it is not necessary to waste further

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Quotes are from a friend's note on facebook, thanks Christina."you see, they say if you die in your dream, then you're dead in real life"coz the body can't survive without the mind" - they said it in the matrix"You see, when you die in your dream, then you are dead in that dream, in that life, in that real life.You don't experience that death. You don't experience death. Ever.You just awake, in a

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Sorry guys, but some posts have had to be removed. This is after taking advice from a lawyer and members of the philosophy department at HKU. I intend to pursue the work I described on here in more depth and will definitely inform you when a more formal format of it is available.I sincerely apologise for having to take the posts down and as a result your comments. I would like to explicitly thank

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The other day I was getting frustrated with my PC - its a Dell inspiron 1300, probably 2 and a bit years old and working like a snail. The internet I use here at the University of Hong Kong isn't exactly lightning speed either and does have the odd habit of randomly shutting itself down. It was thus that I started thinking about how much time I, or anyone, could actually save if there was

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Not sure what triggered this post, but as you will see it is something I think about regularly. It may have originally been in an eye-opening attempt for God-of-the-Gap type argument’s proponents, with particular reference to attacks on the incomplete fossil record.I’ve always said that it is dangerous turf to sit on considering it continually gets torn off.Only a very few organisms that die end

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The Progress Check is another blog I have where I post much more detailed articles. Not for the faint-hearted.First is Problems of Truth, Names & Certainty, an enquiry into the question - what is knowledge? I recommend reading the link to the paper by Gettier before mine; it is extremely famous and notably very short; it will also provide a short introduction to my paper.Next is Are

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This post is going to require at least a basic knowledge of the prisoner’s dilemma (PD) and moreover what is so special about the iterated prisoner’s dilemma. However, I hope it has some interesting points even for those who know nothing about it, and cannot be bothered to do any research.The IPD allows punishment and reward for behaviour, and it allows participants to learn and create a

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Days after Jacques Rogge, the IOC president, commented on how there may be up to 2 day delays in some events at the 2008 Olympics beginning next August, Beijing’s highways were closed as visibility was reduced to 50m in areas after smog engulfed the city.The Beijing organizers of the games insist that pollution will be curbed by shutting down factories before and during the games, and banning the

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If only you open your eyes.I was recently sad to hear the story of a HKU psychology undergraduate, who, due to his degree felt the only fields open for his future career were education and research!This is a backward view reiterated around the campus, by students and staff alike and it couldn’t be further from the truth. All one has to do is attend a graduate recruitment campus presentation by a

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