Royal Society of Malton

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The Royal Society Of Malton
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Abbreviation: RSoM
Group Numbers: Unimportant
Leadership: The Philosophe Knights
Goals: To maintian a society of educated and scholarly survivors within Malton
Location: Southall Mansion
Recruitment Policy: We accept any member or group that is, or wishes to be, educated
Contact: philosopheknights@gmail.net

The Royal Society of Malton is an organization of groups or single survivors that wish to follow an intellectual pursuit in addition to their various daily activities. This organization is affiliated to no other cause than that of education. Though the Philosophe Knights began, and currently run, the Royal Society, it has no connection to their dogma. The only policy shared by the two entities is the Centers of Learning Policy.


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This user or group is a member of the Royal Society of Malton, a coalition of groups and individuals who pride themselves on their intellect and strive to make the survivors within Malton more intelligent.
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Nullius in Verba.
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Philosophy

Books.jpg Centers Of Learning Policy Supporter
This user or group supports the Centers of Learning Policy & acknowledges that all libraries, schools, zoos, and museums in the city of Malton are considered safe places. No survivor in one of these locations may be killed for any reason unless that survivor is a specified enemy of this user or group.


APP1.jpg Artifact Protection Policy Supporter
This user or group supports the Artifact Protection Policy, acknowledging that the looting of museums is strictly prohibited. This user or group will do what they can to prevent museum theft in order to preserve Malton's cultural and intellectual integrity.



Fine Arts1.jpg Fine Art of Malton Supporter
This user or group supports the Fine Art of Malton movement & acknowledges that all museums are PK ceasefire zones, heal points, and are to be a barricading priority.

Anyone group or individual who supports The Royal Society of Malton is invited to check out Fine Art of Malton.

Suggested Reading

"Zombies" First published Mon Sep 8, 2003; substantive revision Mon Oct 9, 2006 Entire Article

The following is an excerpt from the aforementioned article.

Zombies are exactly like us in all physical respects but have no conscious experiences: by definition there is ‘nothing it is like’ to be a zombie. Yet zombies behave like us, and some even spend a lot of time discussing consciousness. This disconcerting fantasy helps to make the problem of phenomenal consciousness vivid, especially as a problem for physicalism.

Few people think zombies actually exist. But many hold they are at least conceivable, and some that they are ‘logically’ or ‘metaphysically’ possible. It is argued that if zombies are so much as a bare possibility, then physicalism is false and some kind of dualism must be accepted. For many philosophers that is the chief importance of the zombie idea. But the idea is also of interest for its presuppositions about the nature of consciousness and how the physical and the phenomenal are related. Use of the zombie idea against physicalism also raises more general questions about relations between imaginability, conceivability, and possibility. Finally, zombies raise epistemological difficulties: they reinstate the ‘other minds’ problem.