[lbo-talk] Mirror neurons

ravi ravi at platosbeard.org
Wed Sep 5 21:27:13 PDT 2007


On 5 Sep, 2007, at 23:48 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Sep 5, 2007, at 9:35 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>> A certain amount of vulgar intelligence is useful in reacting to the
>> world. Your observations here have exactly the same content as
>> Doug's on
>> the B-minor -- species-centric praise of human superiority: for those
>> things are only beautiful from a human perspective of beauty. In
>> fact,
>> this is rather mawkish anthropomorphizing.
>
> So why'd you spend your life on Milton and Pound rather than sorghum
> or strip malls?
>

Because he *is* an anthropoid (or should I say he is anthrōpos)? ;-)

Hey, Eubilides (or other experts), care to comment on the anthropic principle and Smolin and Suskind's differences?

--ravi



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