Tue 16 Mar, 2010 08:44 am - [QUOTE=HexHammer;140276]Uhmm..why do you see a headless sea turtle and chicken have good motor skills without their head?[/QUOTE]
Because they've got a brain stem and peripheral system that... (view)
Tue 16 Mar, 2010 07:03 am - richrf is pretending that motor skills and other kinds of implicit memory aren't related to the nervous system
ps that's kind of dumb (view)
Sun 14 Feb, 2010 02:19 am - so I'm reading [I]Evidence and Evolution: the Logic Behind the Science[/I], a rather tortuous book about the details of philosophy of science immanent in claims made by both evolutionary... (view)
Sat 13 Feb, 2010 07:18 pm - [QUOTE=William;127875]Funny you should say that.[/QUOTE]
no it's not funny
it's true
if you pick apart a human brain most of its substrates are homologous with those of other mammals... (view)
Sat 13 Feb, 2010 05:25 am - [QUOTE=William;127799]Contrary to popular belief, we are not animal. We are human and there is a big difference of which I will not reiterate again. Yet survival was, it can be concluded, a... (view)
Wed 10 Feb, 2010 02:10 pm - [QUOTE=jgweed;126798]And isn't it a philosophical position that philosophy [B]must[/B] be [I]useful[/I] or of practical benefit or "relevant to life" and have a... (view)
Wed 10 Feb, 2010 12:59 pm - [QUOTE=Jonblaze;126671]They seemed very much in the sort of "philosophy isn't just in stuffy classrooms" vein, which has it's place.[/QUOTE]
it tends to be very abstract... (view)
Wed 10 Feb, 2010 02:28 am - well rich no longer posts here apparently (maybe he's finally kicked the bucket after avoiding Western medicine for decades) but I'll bring up a classic example of his:... (view)
Tue 9 Feb, 2010 05:53 pm - [QUOTE=richrf;82100]Should equal weight be given to Eastern philosophies?[/quote]
no
look at what Eastern philosophy did to the East
I don't want to be surrounded by boring protofascist... (view)
