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Paradox for the beginner
This book does an excellent job explaining paradox in language the common person understands yet is still interesting to the student of philosophy.It covers simple paradox, memes, and game theory quite nicely.This book was required reading in a philosophy class I took, taught by Dr. Leiber at the University of Houston.And yes, he is Fritz Leiber's son. ... Read more

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Someone had stolen his body -
This is from the back of my copy of the book. "
Someone had stolen his body - and thereby hangs the tale...

Ismael Forth woke up to find he was dead - killed on a remote planet, the report was.His personality recording predating his death was now implanted in a new body.

But Forth knew he would never have traveled in space ... that the report was a lie - and he learned that his body had been stolen for a highly profitable, highly illegal mind implant.

Companioned by Candy Darling, a Federation agent whose eleven-year-old body housed an intelligence seven times that age, he set out to track down his old body - for the new form that now housed Ismael Forth once belonged to an attractive woman - with an elegant, if rather inconvenient, tail...
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The title refers to transplant rejection.Will Ismael Forth's "self" reject the body that it is now housed in?

NOT A REVIEW
1) Please correct your database: the author's name is Justin, not "Justine".

2) Can you tell me what would be the preferredway for me to submit suggested corrections such as this?

Thank you, MichaelSnyder ... Read more

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'Written in a lively and entertaining style, this little book, which deals with topics such as 'personhood', animal rights, and artificial intelligence ...makes some rather difficult philosophical points clear in an unpedantic fashion' - M E Winston, Trenton State College. ... Read more

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Interesting Issue
This book deals with issues that we do not think in our daily life and this is what it is to be a person. It is amazing how the arguments of the book are construed and seems absurd to take the consideration of animalsand machines being persons. Yet, regardless of its absurdity it issomething that should be considered; an issue that should be debated on.The first thing that came to my mind while reading this book is that aperson is similar to a computer in that persons are also 'programmed' bysociety and education (this issue is not about the computer we use in ourdaily lives but a more complicated machine). When reading this book keep inmind that a human being means "any individual of the genus Homo, esp.a member of thespecies Homo sapiens." So, obviously Justin Leiber is not saying that computers are humans because they are not from the samespecies. Now, what it is to be a person is something different. I neverthought of the way we use the word person being equal to human being. Infact, I thought person=human being, but now I have realized this is not so.A human being is a person (there is no doubt about this) but notnecessarily a person is a human being. For example, in law a corporation, apartnership, an estate, or other legal entity is recognized to a person,but not a human being. Think about it if a corporation that does notfunction with the same autonomy as the computer in the book is a person whythe computer can not be a person too. All these things I have thought ofcame from reading this book. I strongly recommend it because it gives thepossibility of opening our mind and seeing reality from a differentperspective. ... Read more

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A history of and an introduction to cognitive science which locates the current consensus on the subject in a philosophical background. The book assumes little familiarity with the subject and has been written with non-specialists in mind. ... Read more

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Word count: 567. ... Read more

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Contents: "Extraterrestrial Translation" ; "A Look at John Schoenherr"; "Evasion"...more... ... Read more