OUR LADY
OF
THE WIN
(link to YDN article, above)
theantiyale
37 out of 43 regions of the brain showed patterns corresponding to wins and losses for players of matching pennies
These 37 sections (and others !) must be missing from my brain. I have ZERO interest in games which involve winning or losing. This, of course, limits my conversation with 90% of the male population, which seems to have fed steroids to these 37 sections of the brain for the first 25 years of their lives.
whatwhat
how is this relevant? not everything is about you
theantiyale
IT'S NOT RELEVANT AT ALL. IT'S AN ATTEMPT TO MAKE THE CASE THAT THERE ARE OTHER FOLKS OUT THERE LIKE ME WHO DO NOT FIT THE GOOD PROFESSOR'S ASSSUMPTIONS ABOUT THE STRUCTURE OF THE BRAIN AND ABOUT COMPETETIVENESS.
In case you haven't noticed the entire world of scholarship, like the Internet and Google, is attempting to dissect human beings into DATA and shove them into tiny diigitzed compartments from which extrapolations can be made.
I'm on the warpath against it---and have been for years. (see The Bill and Melinda Gradgrind Foundation)
It is a social disease, and, like syphyllis, will rot NOT the brain, but the human spirit.
Paul D. Keane
M. Div '80
M.A., M.Ed.
PS
It's not about ME. It's about an EMBLEM OF EXCEPTION, CHALLENGING THE DATA-FANATA [cism ] posing as scholarship today. Sorry that the emblem happens to have my name.
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