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Flushing out the phlogiston ~~~.?

This article grew up around the core part of a letter I sent to the web site "HMS Beagle" (then the fortnightly journal published at the BioMedNet site) and to the various participants of the "A sense of self" debate" (see references in the "phlogiston" article). To me it seemed rather like the final pieces of a jigsaw puzzle flying together. There are undoubtedly mistakes in here but, equally, there are also many useful insights.

The phlogiston title is potentially (analogously as well as literally) inflammatory. Its use reflects my own feelings of melting exasperation (and annoyance that it had taken so long) that, at last, the veil of obscurity, that had made it hard to work out what was going on, had been removed and things had become much clearer.

It is an annoyance that I cannot cite this work. If there is anyone out there who would be prepared to let it have a place in a citable journal, I would be most grateful for this.