Table of content

A reason for the division of this essay into four parts
is that it becomes unwieldy to edit otherwise.

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Part A: O soul o mio
https://ghostbust999.blogspot.com/p/part-o-soul-o-mio.html

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Part B: The eightfold way?
https://ghostbust999.blogspot.com/p/part-b-eightfold-way.html

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Part C: What, no instant karma?
https://ghostbust999.blogspot.com/p/part-c-what-no-instant-karma.html

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Part D: A holistic in the head
https://ghostbust999.blogspot.com/p/part-d-holistic-in-head.html

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Part E: Trivial pursuit?
https://ghostbust999.blogspot.com/p/part-e-trivial-pursuit.html

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¶ The first, much much slimmer version of Ghost slips Ryle's grasp was posted Friday, August 4, 2017. I have been updating this article regularly since it was first posted in August 2017 and the original is barely recognizable in the current version.
¶ In future, it is vaguely possible I will do what I can to smooth out the accumulated lumpiness. Serious technical revisions are still possible here and there.
¶ For computer documents, ordered footnotes are unnecessary. Each footnote designation uses an arbitrary alphanumeric code, which links to the note. I have been adding footnotes at will (thus the unconventional footnote system).
¶ Revision dates are listed at the bottom of the Table of Content page.
¶ A very useful supplement to this critique is the essay 'Conversation with Gilbert Ryle'
in Modern British Philosophy by Bryan Magee.[zw7]
¶ A very useful survey of the mind/body problem in general is the anthology Immortality edited by Paul Edwards (be forewarned of Edwards's strong atheist bias) [ds45].
¶ Consider archiving these pages via The Wayback Machine, https://archive.org/web/
¶ This essay contains 30,000 words and may be regarded as a short book.