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Virginia Heffernan: Edge, Jeffrey Epstein, & the Intellectual Dark Web

Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation

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The Chinese Room Theory

i think a systematic analysisor a close reading of some of their work would show intellectual fraud. John syrrell, the philosopher, is famous for this thing called the chinese room theory. He had asked to fly first class, where the rest of us didn't. And there's no reason that that chinese room thing with those things in it is any more meaningful than something keith reneri said. i know that he's keeping a very low profile since epstian's arrest and apparent death by suicide. That's the emperor has new clothes feeling i emerged with after dropping brachma,. although he won't take me off the edge.

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