Where It All Began?
Pre-Socratic Philosophy

I had never thought to think that far back.

I have read some of the original plato and socrates, I did *try* to fight my way through the Summa of St. T. a long time ago.

A bit over half in or so I realized I was reduced to only doing piece-wise analysis and recognized I simply didn't posess enough wet-ware for the task and gave up. I couldn't hold it all in my head at once.

phidoc.net/pre-socratics.html

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Thanks for your comments which were genuinely appreciated. Apart from the pre-Socratics, I'm also interested in the relationship between philosophy, neuroscience and quantum physics

@iankenway I'm hard pressed to think of another philosopher I know actually Ian except for @clhendricksbc

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Hi, let me come back to you in the next day re philosophy, Canada. Symi is on the very edge of Europe. I can see Turkey from my window (I live about 1,000 feet above sea level) and could swim out of the EU. Today very heavy rain has returned to this very arid island. Normally this wouldn't matter, but we had such a wet winter! In the meanwhile here's a placeholder:

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