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January 24, 2007

The thingishness of things:

...when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you sometimes find that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

Winnie the Pooh struggles with the problem of communicating qualia to external observers in A. A. Milne's The House at Pooh Corner.

Vaughan.

Posted at January 24, 2007 08:45 PM

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