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Pascal's Wagering

Friday, April 12, 2002 at 10:31AM

Scott Raymond points me to Pascal’s Wagering: the perils of a life of gambling.

Banned from the casinos, Blaise rolled up huge debts with illegal existentialists, who set arbitrary odds and paid off arguments on a whim. After losing three times in a week to the idea that all of human consciousness is the precocious hallucination of a disembodied llama brain in a mad sorcerer’s laboratory, Blaise began to despair, and I knew I had to help him.

Just beautiful.

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I’m Greg Restall, and this is my website. I work in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. Email: greg at consequently.org; Post: School of of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Australia.

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Thought

In an irreligous world, brands provide us with beliefs. They define who we are and signal our affiliations.
— Mr. Wally Olins, quoted in the September 8, 2001 issue of The Economist, in the article “Who’s wearing the trousers?”.