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		<title>The Naked Truth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about what I now see as dressing this up: looking for the serious angle, preferably philosophical, but if not then sociological or whatever&#8212;and it does have that sort of potential, but I don&#8217;t have time to get into that sort of thing now&#8212;I have to write 20k words over the next couple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A movie with its heart in the right place, but&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;to be honest I haven&#8217;t seen Being In The World yet (it doesn&#8217;t seem to have been released), so what follows is based on the website, but there are enough trailers, clips and text there to get me thinking. Being In The World is a new movie by Tao Ruspoli, and, as is common these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The brights, mysticism and me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently joined the brights. What&#8217;s a bright? A bright is a person who has a naturalistic worldview A bright&#8217;s worldview is free of supernatural and mystical elements The ethics and actions of a bright are based on a naturalistic worldview That&#8217;s from the website&#8217;s home page. Naturalism is &#8220;the doctrine that the world can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robinfaichney.org/index.php/2010/03/02/the-brights-mysticism-and-me/</link>
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		<title>Opposite extremes in psychotherapy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve both studied and experienced psychodynamic psychotherapy (&#8220;talking therapy&#8221;, like psychoanalysis) so I&#8217;m very interested in the fact that it&#8217;s gaining a good evidence base at last. Similarly, having experienced psychedelic drugs, I was interested to read that they are again being considered for therapeutic use. (This is the first time that I&#8217;ve publicly owned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robinfaichney.org/index.php/2010/02/27/opposite-extremes-in-psychotherapy/</link>
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		<title>Meta-philosophy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading up on information, again (John Collier&#8217;s Intrinsic Information), which has nothing to do with what I&#8217;m supposed to be studying, and, probably as a consequence, thinking deep thoughts about my future in philosophy, and whether I really want to do a PhD (and if not, whether I still have reason to complete [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second Annual Online Consciousness Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This might seem a bit gimmicky (or maybe I&#8217;m just behind the times&#8212;I certainly am as regards this announcement) but some big names are taking part.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robinfaichney.org/index.php/2010/02/23/second-annual-online-consciousness-conference/</link>
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		<title>Effects of media violence ignored by media?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading a paper by Susan Hurley (@Wikipedia), a philosopher who sadly died a couple of years ago aged only 53, for a university course. The title is &#8220;By-passing conscious control: imitation, media violence and freedom of speech.&#8221; (In S Pockett et al, Does Consciousness Cause Behaviour, MIT Press. I might be doing an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robinfaichney.org/index.php/2010/02/16/effects-of-media-violence-ignored-by-media/</link>
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		<title>My study plans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After much cogitation, mainly about PhD possibilities, but also (very briefly) about whether I even want to complete the MSc, yesterday I reached some firm conclusions, which I&#8217;m publicising to confirm my commitment to them (ie for my own benefit even if nobody else is interested, which is entirely possible). The main development yesterday was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robinfaichney.org/index.php/2010/02/13/my-study-plans/</link>
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		<title>Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on flow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I discovered this while working on my PhD research proposal (which at the moment is on again, though maybe not for long). I&#8217;m interested in the implications of altered states such as flow for philosophy of mind. But you don&#8217;t need to be a philosopher or psychologist to learn a lot from this. Some of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robinfaichney.org/index.php/2010/01/30/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi-on-flow/</link>
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		<title>Empathy with robots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a fascinating, if short, article in New Scientist magazine. Exposure to robots in the movies and television could affect our ability to empathise with synthetic beings, suggests a study of the brain regions thought to be responsible for our ability to relate to each other. The team found that the MNS [mirror neuron [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robinfaichney.org/index.php/2010/01/22/empathy-with-robots/</link>
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