At around 3/2/06 8:40 pm, Autoplectic wrote:
> On 2/3/06, raghu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> To be fair to the CSers, the amount of esoteric math masquerading as
>> research in ECE and Physics is not insignificant either. In that sense:
>> 'pot meet kettle' and Sokal/Bricmont are nothing more than pompous jerks.
>
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> Ah yes, the ad hominem is the favored rhetoric of our time.
>
> The Manichean casting of the mo/pomo issue and the futile and vicious
> adversariality 'it' brings forth from various participants is neither
> modern nor postmodern, it re-presents the worst forms of
> authoritarianism that were prevalent in the ancient world; the
> polytheism/monotheism culture wars. Only now we have more complex
> technologies to express and carry out our hatreds. Isn't it time to
> leave ancient hatreds behind?
>
Its not that we are hating -- we are following Gandhi's dictum that one
should be pacifist without being passive. IOW, if you see a bully, stand
up to him! ;-) (Adding a smiley because I am sort of leaving Ian's
argument intact). Or are we to pull a Ramachandran in response?
BTW, I agree with Raghu about CS (but not because of any esoteric math,
which at least in my experience, there is unfortunately little of).
--ravi
P.S: Leda Cosmides has a response to Ramachandran. You may buy it or it
may sound funnily like the ST response.
P.P.S: I will stop for now with this response. Apologies to all for the
off-topic content.
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