Re: Sublimation and science and art

From: Robert Owen (rowen@technologist.com)
Date: Thu Sep 30 1999 - 15:56:47 MDT


Anders Sandberg wrote:

> Not to mention in math. There was a hilarious thread on that on
> sci.math a few years back. "Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated" as
> somebody put it.

And, clinically speaking, "technophilia" is "an ego-defense erected to
maintain the repression of abstract thought."

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