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Old 08-09-2004, 06:47 AM   #34 (permalink)
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You are way too emotinally involved here.
And this follows from exactly what that I wrote?
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As for theories of mind, I can name two big ones
These 1) and 2) are more helpful analogies than precise theories, and clearly neither is truly the case, the same way that quanta are neither particles nor waves, and we simply use these analogies as they are the closest things that we have sensory experiences with in the macro world. What is the case, however, is that the brain's main evolutionary function in an organism is an information processing device (that is what cognitivism is all about), and so information theory/physics lets us derive severe limits on the mind, regardless whether you are working within the frameworks of analogies such as 1) and 2).
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As for citations to experiements that are inconclusive or show people able to hear difference in blind tests: If you are truly interested, I'll gather citations
My frustration in finding such is the raison d'etre for much of my posts in such threads.

BTW, do you perchance post on Slashdot under a similar alias?
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