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POLL RESULTS: Skepticon Tequiladrome 2009: (7 comments)
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POLL: Skepticon Tequiladrome 2009

in Community by jon

Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 09:43 AM

Everything you need to know about Monday night is contained in today's Overcompensating comic strip and accompanied textualization. Everything else that happened is something you didn't need to know. We'll post the video later.

UPDATE: Here is the video!

Boston Skeptics in the Pub - Jeffrey Rowland/Jon Rosenberg - Apr. 27, 2009 from Maggie McFee on Vimeo.

Thanks to everyone who came and made things weird, including the guy who tried to sell us clownfish, Randall, The Man Who Clarified That Consciousness Is Not A Quantum Artifact and Rebecca, who is responsible for everything, including the delay in today's comic strip. Shame!

I'll have a new installment for you sometime this afternoon, want to get it just right.

POLL: Consciousness
 
 6% (42) Illusion
 
 14% (93) Brain Ghost
 
 8% (56) Mechanical
 
 6% (44) Beyond Ken
 
 15% (98) Quantum Artifact
 
 21% (143) On Sale At Sears
 
 27% (177) Emergent Phenomenon
653 people have voted in this poll. (This poll is not active.)
deerboy
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Re: Skepticon Tequiladrome 2009 (Score: 2)
posted Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 11:14 AM (#47654)

Emergent phenomenon


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Re: Skepticon Tequiladrome 2009 (Score: 2)
posted Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 11:43 AM (#47655)
In Response to deerboy (#47654):

Duly noted and added as an option.


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Re: POLL: Skepticon Tequiladrome 2009 (Score: 2)
posted Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 03:17 PM (#47659)

... so is "Beyond Ken" == "Skipper"?


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Re: POLL: Skepticon Tequiladrome 2009 (Score: 1)
posted Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 04:55 PM (#47660)

Since becoming a homeowner, I'm convinced that everything I could ever possibly need is either at Home Depot or Sears.

Consciousness is a bit ephemeral, so Sears makes more sense than HD.


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Re: Skepticon Tequiladrome 2009 (Score: 3, Insightful)
posted Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 12:43 AM (#47665)
In Response to jon (#47655):

The poll itself is emergent. Most excellent.


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Re: POLL: Skepticon Tequiladrome 2009 (Score: 2)
posted Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 09:23 PM (#47677)
In Response to zamphir (#47659):

I'd question whether the concept of Beyond Ken even exists, even in purely theoretical realms:

http://www.goats.com/archive/020906.html [goats.com]


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Re: POLL: Skepticon Tequiladrome 2009 (Score: 1)
posted Monday, May 04, 2009 - 10:42 PM (#47699)

Beyond Ken.

But not quite Barbie.


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