From: John Regehr (regehr@cs.utah.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 04 2001 - 23:24:30 PST
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 cdale@silly.techmonkeys.net wrote:
> Who is the entity which discredits things like this?
> C
The same entity that discredits any other bad theory: the bulk of the
scientists working in the area.
It's not like they have a monopoly on the truth, but there has to be
some concensus on which ideas are worth pursuing or science would not be
able to move forward.
John
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 cdale@silly.techmonkeys.net wrote:
> Who is the entity which discredits things like this?
> C
>
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, John Regehr wrote:
>
> > > It doesn't mention 'bicameral mind' anywhere (according to the index and my
> > > memory). It seems somewhat orthogonal to me currently. See my next post.
> >
> > Why would it mention Jaynes' stuff? I was under the impression that it
> > has been pretty thoroughly discredited. I could be wrong, though - I
> > just remember talking about it with some psychologists at some point.
> >
> > A good book about the mind is Pinker's _How the Mind Works_. Lots of
> > good evolutionary psychology explanations for things. For whatever
> > reason, these often ring true for me.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
>
> --
> "A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."
> -- Robert Frost
>
>
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