Cover letter

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Cover letter submitted to nature. w.o. article



TOC [of "Cover letter"]

AR: ADD: The technical advances making it possible to not just perform this experiment but also to interpret the results

IS THIS FOR THE PAPER OR FOR THE COVER LETTER? : " Why I believe this experiment should be performed on the brains of physicists, rather than on those of philosophers (or metaphysicians), or psychologists. (And why the result of the experiment may have bearing also on physics rather than only on psychology or philosophy etc.):

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My opinion, my journey, my feelings

  • My Prior articles on this and related topics

  • Genesis of this survey in the author's original 1987 survey

  • Throughout my career my interest in fundamentals led me to think about and write articles on specific topics:

  • How my physics research reflected my deeper interests

….

[MESH BELOW *IV]

  • To the editorial board: Request as to who will review this paper:

  • Re the refereeing process, and the editorial view

  • Requested reviewers

  • NEUTRALITY: A) Difficulties in presenting the goal of the experiment in neutral terms B) Should the paper be "neutral" and clinical or partisan and impassioned?

  • Funding for research and for the survey

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  • My Own Journey and fascination & partial disillusionment with Physics ": [MESH FROM BELOW **]

  • The fate of my attempts at disseminating this idea online

  • My own conviction on this issue [MESH FROM BELOW *]

  • Countering partisanship in discussions of Free will [AR: SHOULD THIS BE WITH THE ABOVE SECTION OR IS IT more relevant to "What I am trying to achieve with the survey and experiment"]

  • The greater the physicist, the less reluctant to openly enfranchise consciousness, and Students should be made aware of this

  • My experience of Physics as a "bait and switch": [MESH WITH ABOVE **]

  • There really ought to be a name for "what is known to exist"

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[MESH BELOW ***]


  • What I am trying to achieve via carefully orchestrating the survey methodology and crafting the wording [MESH BELOW *V]

  • My reasoning

  • circumvent the need for all that by utilizing the quotes

……..

  • Ways to utilize the survey results(ADD "and experiment results")A & B


  • A) Mind-development which I personally would greatly welcome

  • Is the thesis offensive? [MESH ABOVE *IV]

  • Next respondent population [MESH ABOVE ***]

  • B) Possible benefits of recognizing the fundamental divide

  • Correlation to religion:

  • sociological implications:

  • Creating a bridge between sharp divides

  • A bridging type of philosophy

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  • My own stance re consciousness: [MESH WITH ABOVE *]

  • Three epiphanies and how they are reflected[underlying the writing of the article] in the idea for the proposed survey, and by its wording [MESH ABOVE *V]


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Perhaps large parts of this will form the basis of a separate article, and will be omitted from this 'cover letter'

In order to ensure that only academic survey respondents are included in the statistics, the survey form will require including an email address, which will not be visible to other respondents. Via this email address respondents will be invited to join a google group for discussion, critique etc.

The survey form and a google group about it for respondents - Survey discussion - will be embedded on a site named: "On Line Idealists Materialists Community" = OLIMcommunity.com

(the url of the website is sites.google.com/olimcommunity.com/idealistmaterialistcommunity/)

[soon: separate embedded google groups for discussion of the paper, survey and experiment]


The article will be posted to philsciarchive@groups.pitt.edu (and/or to philpapers?) while it is pending after submission to 'nature'.