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Ron Paul
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Bobby Jindal
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Pseudo-babble pomo drooling beast award. Submitted by Marcus on Wed, 2009-06-03 22:53
"Psychosocially positive behaviours such as admiration and indignation are more work for the brain than basic emotions such as pain response. Constant bombardment by outside high-intensity stimuli is not likely be healthy. It may prevent people from having an opportunity to digest the information, match it with culturally resonant reactions and then execute well-considered behavioural responses." Professor Dilip Jeste. From the Times: (greatest pseudo-pscycho babble pomo article of all time!) http://women.timesonline.co.uk... Unravel this pomo-gibberish, I dare you!
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It goes without saying that people lack empathy...
...when reading a news story about, a death for example, not due to information overload but for purely rational reasons.
Why should I empathise with an unknown individual who lives somewhere else in a situation I'm not involved in that is reported to me by a third party?
I would have to be insane to cry over a news story like that every time one appeared.
Despite the consideration that what is reported in the media is often false or deliberately misleading, probably this article included.
My favourite response is this one...
...He describes this article perfectly!
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What a lot of absolute pseudo-science rubbish. The brain is not a computer. Computers are poor approximation of the human brain. This article is a prime example of the sort of mental masturbation usually practiced by pseudo-scientists who wrongly claim to understand the complexity of the human mind.
Serge, Adelaide, Australia
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This one is good too...
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1) The starting assumption we should care about particular things such as some guy dying or eco-panic
2) Co-opting of term "wisdom"
3) If any hardwired "wisdom" can be overridden by reason, it should be
4) Hardwired urges are very weak
5) Evolutionary psychology: fashionable toss
Ran out of space.
_Felix, Nottingham.