Only a few years earlier, the neocons had been denouncing them as coming from the fever swamps, in the words of Decter.
the fever swamps
Oh, Who Could Be So Heartless As To Vote Dry And Leave This Poor Child Bankrupt and His Mamma Smackless?
From the monistic standpoint there is a choice between two possible alternatives; either consciousness is a form of energy, like heat, etc., or it is merely a so-called epiphenomenon. […] It is essential to have a clear notion of what is meant by an epiphenomenon. […] It designates an accompanying incident of a process which is assumed to have no causal relation to the further development of the process. […] For many years I have tried to recognize some actual idea underneath the epiphenomenon hypothesis of consciousness, but it more and more seems clear to me that there is no idea at all, and that the hypothesis is an empty phrase, a subterfuge, which really amounts only to this—we can explain consciousness very easily by merely assuming that it does not require to be explained at all.
Rakesh Usha Raghunath (‘Samoosa Thrikonadhyaya’, his ‘religious’ name), one of the coordinators of the event, said that Dinkoism is not just a satirical religion but also a socio-political movement that introduces a alternative system through activism and political intervention.
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