[From Bruce Gregory (960616.0840 EDT)]
I have been sharing some material from this net with an old friend who has
found connections with Buddhist thinking that fascinate him. Last week he
wrote me the following:
"Right now I am very carefully re-reading for the third time Govinda's
_Psychological Attitude of Early Buddhist Philosophy_. Strange how books
acquire so much new stuff just ripening on the shelf...."
I have had a similar revelation re-reading Rick Marken's introduction "A
science of purpose" to the ABS volume _Purposeful Behavior: The Control
Theory Approach_. In the few months since I first read it, this short piece
has managed to acquire the essence of our recent exchanges on the nature of
conscienceness, simply while ripening on the shelf. Amazing! (Bill Powers
writings are exemplars of this as yet unexplained phenomenon.)
Bruce G.