...this subthread is more like a cozy fireside :-)

What I don't suspect you of, SDAI, is crystal-gazing, navel-gazing, or "spiritualism".

[btw, I always associate that last term with seances, and with people like Houdini who attempted to debunk them, because he fervently believed in the phenomenon but resented the bad name it had already obtained through exploitative charlatans.]

As to your own approach to the universe at large, we could go 'round Robin's barn another time on the virtues of personal conviction and internal consistency vs repeatable, verifiable experiential evidence - that is, if you pardon the dusty antique dichotomy, faith vs science (I'm not sure I pardon it myself). What it doesn't need is defense: that is throroughly accomplished at your website, which I have visited more than once.

Regarding the textbooks of the 23rd Century... well, we'll just have to wait and see. Should be an interesting time to wait through, don't you think?

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