A Tricky Lie (Sutherland Mystery Series Book 1)

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This show takes place in New Zealand and there is clearly a slightly different vibe in their culture, reminiscent of the 's in an alternate-reality kind of way.

There is no vulgarity and minimal gore and violence and the pace is s,lower than we're used to which requires a slight adjustment. If you have the patience for that minimal change of acceleration expectation, you'll find this series charming, and fun. The lead deteective yes, they talk funny is smart, flawed, understated and droll.

I'd describe Brokenwood as an acquired taste, one I found refreshing for its willingness to tell the tale without anything sordid, violent, or even slightly mean-spirited. An entry in the murder mystery genre from New Zealand.

The Detective Superior Sergeant reminds me of a non-alcoholic Morse. He is honest, a bit world-weary, a bit of a loner, but very clever. His assistant grows to respect her new boss and even to like him.

Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness?

I like all the characters in this and like Murder in Paradise a wonderful British entry it gives you an opportunity to look around at a new bit of the world without buying a plane ticket. If you like Midsomer Murders, you will like this. It comes with English subtitles, so you can navigate the accent which is not that difficult mostly but has its moments.

Come for lighthearted police murder dramedy, stay for the awesome music. Let's be clear, it's lightweight Midsomer Murders-stye entertainment with a a Kiwi spin and rockabilly music that keeps momentum going. I'll be getting every possible soundtrack from this show. Two of the artists whose music is featured in the episodes are Tami Neilson and Delaney Davidson.

Yup, Sign me up. Roy Orbison and co are smiling from above. Grateful to have found this show for music alone. Lighthearted entertainment with a nifty gaggle of regulars and keeper music.

We really were bored with the entire show. I bought it because the reviews I read were very good. The story just does not seem to have enough actor spark. It just seems to go slow and not the best. It is really that good in every. We caught by accident by watching PBS one day. It is the Best Best Best show we have ever seen. They are now filming the fifth season in Europe. The first season has severn discs with a blond nurse on the cover.

We watch episodes each night. What a story,what acting. See all reviews. Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers.

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This religious and rather hand-wavy position, known as Cartesian dualism, remained the governing assumption into the 18th century and the early days of modern brain study. But it was always bound to grow unacceptable to an increasingly secular scientific establishment that took physicalism — the position that only physical things exist — as its most basic principle. And yet, even as neuroscience gathered pace in the 20th century, no convincing alternative explanation was forthcoming. So little by little, the topic became taboo.

Few people doubted that the brain and mind were very closely linked: But how they were linked — or if they were somehow exactly the same thing — seemed a mystery best left to philosophers in their armchairs. Nothing worth reading has been written on it. It was only in that Francis Crick , the joint discoverer of the double helix, used his position of eminence to break ranks.

Neuroscience was far enough along by now, he declared in a slightly tetchy paper co-written with Christof Koch, that consciousness could no longer be ignored. Stick to more mainstream science! A s a child, Chalmers was short-sighted in one eye, and he vividly recalls the day he was first fitted with glasses to rectify the problem. Of course, you could tell a simple mechanical story about what was going on in the lens of his glasses, his eyeball, his retina, and his brain.

Chalmers, now 48, recently cut his hair in a concession to academic respectability, and he wears less denim, but his ideas remain as heavy-metal as ever. The zombie scenario goes as follows: This person physically resembles you in every respect, and behaves identically to you; he or she holds conversations, eats and sleeps, looks happy or anxious precisely as you do.

But the point is that, in principle, it feels as if they could. Evolution might have produced creatures that were atom-for-atom the same as humans, capable of everything humans can do, except with no spark of awareness inside. So consciousness must, somehow, be something extra — an additional ingredient in nature. The withering tone of the philosopher Massimo Pigliucci sums up the thousands of words that have been written attacking the zombie notion: But to accept this as a scientific principle would mean rewriting the laws of physics. Everything we know about the universe tells us that reality consists only of physical things: Nonetheless, just occasionally, science has dropped tantalising hints that this spooky extra ingredient might be real.

Weiskrantz showed him patterns of striped lines, positioned so that they fell on his area of blindness, then asked him to say whether the stripes were vertical or horizontal. Naturally, DB protested that he could see no stripes at all. Apparently, his brain was perceiving the stripes without his mind being conscious of them.

One interpretation is that DB was a semi-zombie, with a brain like any other brain, but partially lacking the magical add-on of consciousness. Chalmers knows how wildly improbable his ideas can seem, and takes this in his stride: The consciousness debates have provoked more mudslinging and fury than most in modern philosophy, perhaps because of how baffling the problem is: McGinn added, in a footnote: McGinn, to be fair, has made a career from such hatchet jobs. But strong feelings only slightly more politely expressed are commonplace.

Not everybody agrees there is a Hard Problem to begin with — making the whole debate kickstarted by Chalmers an exercise in pointlessness. Daniel Dennett , the high-profile atheist and professor at Tufts University outside Boston, argues that consciousness, as we think of it, is an illusion: This is the point at which the debate tends to collapse into incredulous laughter and head-shaking: Chalmers has speculated, largely in jest, that Dennett himself might be a zombie.

But everybody now accepts that goldness and silveriness are really just differences in atoms. However hard it feels to accept, we should concede that consciousness is just the physical brain, doing what brains do. Look at the precedents: Or take life itself: Light is electromagnetic radiation; life is just the label we give to certain kinds of objects that can grow and reproduce. Eventually, neuroscience will show that consciousness is just brain states. Solutions have regularly been floated: But the intractability of the arguments has caused some thinkers, such as Colin McGinn, to raise an intriguing if ultimately defeatist possibility: After all, our brains evolved to help us solve down-to-earth problems of survival and reproduction; there is no particular reason to assume they should be capable of cracking every big philosophical puzzle we happen to throw at them.

O r maybe it is: Koch concedes that this sounds ridiculous: Besides, panpsychism might help unravel an enigma that has attached to the study of consciousness from the start: Growing up as the child of German-born Catholics, Koch had a dachshund named Purzel. The problem is that there seems to be no logical reason to draw the line at dogs, or sparrows or mice or insects, or, for that matter, trees or rocks.

Which is how Koch and Chalmers have both found themselves arguing, in the pages of the New York Review of Books, that an ordinary household thermostat or a photodiode, of the kind you might find in your smoke detector, might in principle be conscious. The argument unfolds as follows: Explanations have to stop somewhere. The panpsychist hunch is that consciousness could be like that, too — and that if it is, there is no particular reason to assume that it only occurs in certain kinds of matter.

It is the argument that anything at all could be conscious, providing that the information it contains is sufficiently interconnected and organised.

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