Paul,

Yes! Agreed from here!!! Right on.

You said what I couldn't phrase---or what I think I meant. Soooo---I think, therefor I am. --- Is that a theory or a totally proven truism? ------ Descartes, I've been told, went into a bar. Bartender asked, "Would you like a drink?" He answered, "I think not."---And he disappeared! ---------Is that enough scientific research?

So many questions! When is enough, enough? Enough what?Enough "proof" producing inquiries. ;-) Sometimes mental ruminations and deep thoughts aren't enough though. Often, like Descartes, ceasing to exist is the only real proof that you were ever here at all...

As my old uncle was so fond of saying, "Suicide is the sincerest form of self-criticism."

After that, the telling of the tale rests only on the hope that the biographer got the facts right!! ---- And hope is, after all, the stuff of faith -- wishful thinking. It's pure chance and evolutionary luck of the draw that might lead one to desire that there be some intellectual design behind those writings...

But, I guess, we'll never know!

Art Thieme ;-)