Re: Plea (was ExI: Cognitive Extropians)

From: QueeneMUSE@aol.com
Date: Fri Jan 24 1997 - 14:26:41 MST


In a message dated 97-01-23 20:16:19 EST, you write:

<<
 All I am trying to say is that there must be a final arbiter
 of what to call "knowledge", and that however emotion may have
 helped or hindered the process of getting there, somebody has
 to be the last guard at the gate. >>

Aha! Post a guard.
Again, you are taking the stance (irrational, IMO) that our emotions are "out
to get us", rather than acknowledging them as valuable and neccessary
cognitive function of our beautifully engineered ( if little understood)
computational machinery called the human brain.

This is something like the concept of "original sin", BTW.



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