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The ghost in the machine (English version)

(This is a rush translation. The version may not be in its final form.)

"Sorry for the delay," Helio said. Rain and flood.
"Why did you summon us, Momai?" Not alone? The elegant woman, looking twenty years old, said from her couch.
"Stop irritating him, Persephone. He will never fall in love with you. Even though she's the only woman who can ever seem like a teenager, "answered a fat, mustached man in a cap, polo shirt, tweed coat, and sneakers.
"Of course, Dr. Orlando. He's only attracted to vulgar women, "she said. And we know of some college stories ...
"He does not know what sex is for a long time," said a man sitting in his chair, tall and thin, very well dressed, with disheveled black hair, resting his mechanical leg on a puff.
"Children, children," the lady with white hair and violet eyes lit a tray of cakes on the table. "Let's get to the point. A famous scientist and professor. The death occurred by asphyxiation. A severe bruise on the head, lying on the table. A burnt paper in the ashtray and an open gift box. The room, locked inside; the mother and the daughter, who lived with him, say they have never noticed such an attitude. A very tall house. Nobody heard any shots.

"Let's remember the name Dyle or Byle, which he wrote with shaking hands on the cover of a book before his death, Albertine - Momai said. All the descriptions tell us of an unbreakable willpower. Some even speak of a fanatic person.
"In the first place," said the tall man, "you must ask who the people are.
"Bravo, Maravoglia," the beautiful woman said. "When I was summoned, I did my research. Professor Shin Lun is a friend, a specialist in cognitive psychology, known for the thesis that "there are no thoughts and emotions: there are neurons." Dr. Luiz Paiva, with a platonic tendency, studies the relationship between body and language, with the influence of anthropology and psychoanalysis. Dr. Lisa Pietrovna is a specialist in social psychology and group behavior. Lívia Kartz is the assistant professor, ambitious, who has been rising rapidly in the scientific world and was hired at the weight of gold, after a doctorate in Switzerland.

Helio was anxious. He did not like to feel one penetrating the Circle, where "brilliant minds" secretly discussed "impossible" crimes. Dr. Orlando realized.
"Our dear chief investigator ... For us, you can tell." Are you still writing detective novels?

He was taken by surprise and interpreted as irony:
"At least I'm not an old doctor without patients, who spends time with golf and psychic sessions.
The doctor gave a condescending smile and seemed to deviate from the subject:
"Sometimes I wonder, why do people like mysteries?" In part, perhaps for this very reason: to prove that reality still has gaps, shadows, is in process. In addition, a mystery maintains the intensity of the open mind, propitiates the creation of hypotheses, and encourages floating attention; creating is a pleasure for humans. All books are of mystery: what comes next, who are these people, what language will I still see?
- A pistol of compressed air! Of course! By the window ... I read this in a novel, I think ... "you said as you poured tea. He gets a box with something compromising, feels bad, goes to the window ... Maybe he was hit while still sitting. But not for a bullet, for a harmless object, even an ordinary rubber, but that would distract attention ... Would anyone look around when the corpse has a bruise? But in addition, a massive fragmentation bullet wound could make us immediately picture a sniper. Or maybe ... they wanted Momai!

- The box! The man tried to burn the compromising letter or photo, "says Momai. The paper was prepared with a highly toxic substance... Lívia Kartz was right in saying that the university environment was suffocating.
"An analysis of the ashes can confirm this," said the doctor.
- At a conference two years ago, he said: "People want consolation and believe in ghosts: including Dr. Paiva. If I die, you already know the culprit" - recalled Helio.

"But the question is why," said Penelope, taking the violin.
Malavoglia said:
- Mr. Ryle was a professor of Philosophy at Oxford and author of the expression "ghost in the machine", to criticize the Cartesian dualism. Descartes had argued for the existence of a "mental" substance opposed to "material," either because he did not believe that the few pieces he identified as the brain were able to generate the combinations necessary for adaptive thinking, or to define the world as machine without a soul, and study it free from the Church.

"Yes," said Momai. "For Gilbert Ryle, you have to use Ockham's razor." "Do not use theories beyond what is necessary. It would be the various human activities that lead us to believe that there is a mental life.

Moreover, only science could reveal the truth about ourselves.
Momai jumped up from the sofa.

"I heard a lecture from our man on the internet. He asserted that our behavior and choices could be defined by the environment and genes. It seemed to defend a philosophical point of view that only what can be measured and observed is true. He announces a bombastic article in which he will definitively demolish all forms of dualism. It seemed to me that his defense that "humans are his brains" was a personal and political battle.
- Are you reversing the argument and saying there is no way to prove that "the mind" does not exist? It reminds me of recent work on consciousness as the emerging quality of a complex system, "the doctor said.
"When I talked to Dr. Paiva, he seemed to be concerned about his colleague's competitiveness," Helio said. He would have written her a dark letter, but it was gone. Others confirm enormous animosity between them. He swore to me that such a "bombastic article" would be in the drawer for being criticized harshly even before it was published. Shin Lun described to me a conversation in which he said he feared for his life.
"Dr. Lisa even talked about a" morbid dispute "between them," Momai added. "If you want to look crazy, you should go among the psychologists," she said.

"It seems that someone wants to avoid the demoralization of a theory." A fanatical dualist. Wanting to eliminate a materialist skeptic, Penelope said.
"Who would have killed a skeptic?" Momai paced the room. "In the murders of the" prophet psychopath, "a death, that of a student, was tied to Mandelson's thought -" private faith. " Another, that of a businesswoman, to Spinoza's view: "God is nature." He was talking about the secularization of the world and blaming it for "debauchery" and "savage capitalism." A "deviation" from a secret society. In the most recent case, I imagined that the deceased was part of this international organization.
- So here we would have a third "torn" of the team, ready to deny positivism with blood? said Lady Albertine. I say this because the secret society would expose itself too much by acting itself.
"She can afford it." Maybe it's a more powerful enemy. He wants the game. While someone may have convinced the professor that he would be in danger, "Dr. Orlando said.
Penelope dropped the violin:
"He received the letter he himself had written to Dr. Paiva - what a powerful network! - and that could create an embarrassment. It's insane, so probable. He himself was convinced of the clumsiness of his colleague. As the proverb says, "character is destiny."

"Let's look for signs of a sniper." In front of the house, there is an empty building. And find out who could have prepared the paper with the harmful substance. But I would find a very interesting solution to the unusual locking of the door. Thank you, friends. Until one day. Come on, Helio. We have work to do.
Momai and Helio left quickly. The rain continued.
"Did he come looking for us because he was insecure?" I worry about such a secret society, "Lady Albertine said. It's good to be attentive.
"Momai will never cease to look like a lost loser in an unhealthy and unfeasible city," said Malavoglia, lighting a pipe.

Afonso Jr. Ferreira de Lima
2013

https://afonsojunior.blogspot.com/2013/02/o-fantasma-na-maquina-desculpem-o.html

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