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This is a link post Some interesting philisophical questions in BBC news article
Interesting if you like that sort of thing but not if you dont.

Good to have a read of if your inclined to smoke funny tobacco as I am sure some of your naughty b3tards out there do.
 (I helped save b3ta! lord turkey boy and the cleft of venus, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 23:11, Reply)
This is a normal post i enjoyed that
the first one is good.
I liked philosophy a lot more when i realized that it's not about having to choose and more about explaining why you can't...
 (I helped save b3ta! KittyWaste lives at Sleepingplanet.com, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 23:18, Reply)
This is a normal post Thinking about some of this too much hurts my brain
I am happy to accept that the meaning of life is 42 and just let that be an end to the matter. :)
 (I helped save b3ta! lord turkey boy and the cleft of venus, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 23:20, Reply)
This is a normal post but what if you had
42 people on a seesaw above sharks...
 (I helped save b3ta! KittyWaste lives at Sleepingplanet.com, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 23:56, Reply)
This is a normal post That's really not true
In thought experiments like that example the whole point is that you have to choose one of the courses of action presented to you. The fact that neither of them are particularly desirable doesn't have much to do with it.
 (moltenretriever, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 0:44, Reply)
This is a normal post I read an article recently that proposed that
Different parts of your brian simultanously exist in different realities.

But meh, back to captionX.
 (I helped save b3ta! Monty Propps, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 23:26, Reply)
This is a normal post Havnt forgoten about the hairdresser
Just dont get in till late. Need to call her first to warn her someone she doesn't know might be calling for an appointment.

Im sure she will be fine though :)

Did I read that you were up my end last night so to speak? fnarr fnarr?
 (I helped save b3ta! lord turkey boy and the cleft of venus, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 23:46, Reply)
This is a normal post I was on Tuesday, at Sir John Deanes, learning how to use a computer ;)
Cheers on the head chop front, if I can have a quick cut at a scheduled time without having to read a thumbed copy of the Sun for 45 minutes that's a big win :)
 (I helped save b3ta! Monty Propps, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 1:04, Reply)
This is a normal post Hahaha
Welcome to my world. I have been teaching that same thing since I came back to the UK. Still when some 60 something asks you, after 6 months of one on one tuition, how to bring up the start menu it makes you question if your really cut out for teaching :)
 (I helped save b3ta! lord turkey boy and the cleft of venus, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 1:41, Reply)
This is a normal post I think I'm the same age or slighty older than my tutor ;)
At the moment I'm treading water and helping the peeps on either side of me, but when it gets to Excel and Powerpoint... Then I need to sit up and pay attention. ;)

I'm also gearing up for my Flash course... "'Tinernet, it's the future!"
 (I helped save b3ta! Monty Propps, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 1:55, Reply)
This is a normal post and....
how do we know that we experience colour the same as each other...

Is the colour that i recognise as red, the same colour you see... to put it another way, if i could see what your eyes see, and how your brain perceives it - would i describe it as blue?
 (I helped save b3ta! mr.dogshit The world's premier anthropomorphic canine faeces, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 2:24, Reply)
This is a normal post most studies...
...have shown that when you ask people to create a colour (even in something as simple as adjusting rgb values on an old tv) they will independently choose very similar colours - so it's likely that we all perceive colours in a similar way.
 (I helped save b3ta! TheAlmightyBeev, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 6:29, Reply)
This is a normal post But this is based on your individual
perception of the colour. When you grow up you are "taught" the physical colours and the words you associate with them. If my brain perceives the colour red as polker dot blobs of kittens, and the colour blue as cheese dripping pizzas, then if you ask me to create a colour by name, I will create something that ends up looking like polker dot blobs of kittens or cheese dripping pizzas to ME. To you it will look like how you perceive it. To everyone it is just RED...

That's the point of this philosophical question. You cannot simplify this to say that we'd all create the same colour, because we associate words with our perceptions.
 (I helped save b3ta! DavyBoyInGravyJoy Grey Goose Vodka on Ice, nothing finer, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 9:45, Reply)