Posted: Aug 25, 2010 11:42 am
katja z wrote:
I think this deserves a separate thread focussing on the "language instinct". Shall we?
Nooooooooooooo! Why Katja? Why must you torment me like this? *shakes fist at the sky*
(And yes, a separate thread would probably be appropriate. To be honest, the last couple of pages of this thread probably deserves to be in a separate thread..)
natselrox wrote:Will reply tomorrow. Currently watching Mr. Penrose on consciousness ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f477FnTe1M0 ). 23 mins into the video and I can't understand his proof of Godel's theorem.
Oh, Nats
Penrose is attacked on two fronts for his ideas on quantum consciousness - firstly, he's attacked by physicists for mangling quantum theory so severely, and secondly he's attacked by psychologists for completely misunderstanding how humans operate. Penrose, an otherwise brilliant man as far as I know, is a prime example of why being smart in one area does not permit you to pretend to be smart in another.
In much the same way Pinker is a smart man in the area of being wrong but he pretends to be smart in science..
