--- Harrison Owen <hho...@comcast.net> escribió: > Major case in point. George W. Bush. He took us to war in Iraq > because of > the dire threat of WMDs and ties to Al Qaeda - none of which turned > out to > be true. But he was definitely in charge! And talk about > rationalization - > it now turns out that we got into the whole thing in order to promote > democracy and spread liberty!
Susan Blackmore wrote a book about "The Meme Machine" and the last chapter is surprising: apparently, we're concious of a decision some miliseconds after the decision has been taken. So it really looks like we're not "rational animals" but rather "rationalizing animals". Our population of brain cells seems to selforganise decisions, and only later is our conciousness informed - right after the fact. http://williamcalvin.com/ writes about how thoughts "survive" within our minds, emerging from a population of brain cells. Ever seen an electroencephalogram? Lucas ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ¡250 MB GRATIS! Nuevos servicios, más seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
