{"id":136,"date":"2006-01-04T09:49:40","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T17:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=136"},"modified":"2006-01-04T09:49:40","modified_gmt":"2006-01-04T17:49:40","slug":"lehars-cartoon-essay-on-epistemology-king-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/04\/lehars-cartoon-essay-on-epistemology-king-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehar&#039;s Cartoon Essay on Epistemology, King Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My little essay on Panpsychism in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2006\/q06_index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Annual Edge Question<\/a> page is bringing in some interesting email.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/epist.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Today I heard from Steve Lehar, who agrees with me that any object in the world has a certain amount of consciousness.  Lehar has a very cool <a href=\"http:\/\/cns-alumni.bu.edu\/~slehar\/cartoonepist\/cartoonepist.html\" target=\"_blank\">cartoon essay<\/a> on epistemology, that is, on the nature of our immediate experiences of ourselves in the world.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/kong.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>My wife and I went to King Kong yesterday afternoon, it was good, a bit overlong, but some amazing effects.  Best scene: a super-gross giant worm with a pink, toothy feeding tube swallowing an Australian guy&#039;s head.  &#8220;G&#039;day, mate! Coo-eee!&#8221;  A penile vagina dentata swallowing a man with a beard &#8212; uuuurp!  <i>So<\/i> nasty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My little essay on Panpsychism in the Annual Edge Question page is bringing in some interesting email. Today I heard from Steve Lehar, who agrees with me that any object in the world has a certain amount of consciousness. Lehar has a very cool cartoon essay on epistemology, that is, on the nature of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2033,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/2033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}