Peter Wessel Zapffe (1899–1990) Norwegian philosopher, mountaineer, and author
The Last Messiah [Den sidste Messias] (1933)
“Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.”
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The Guardian.co.uk,28 August 2009
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Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Theory of Knowledge (1913)
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Gordon Pask (1928–1996) British psychologist
Using the argument which relates the information available about conscious processes to the type of experimental situation, we maintain that the basic unit of psychological /educational observation is a conversation. In order to test hypotheses and explicate the conversational transactions, it is necessary to invoke various tools and explanatory constructs. These are coherent enough to count when interlocked as a theory, and this theory was dubbed conversation theory.
Source: Conversation Theory (1976), p. 3.
Brian W. Aldiss (1925–2017) British science fiction author
Locus interview (2000)
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Bob Keeshan (1927–2004) United States Marine
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