We went on a vegetarian diet when we joined a Zen center in Rochester. Some years later, Dede broke her hip falling from a horse. They could not perform the required surgery due to Dede's iron count being so low due to diet. It took almost a week before the surgery could be performed.
We now eat a Mediterranean diet (Italian) which is reasonable w.r.t. meat. I wonder why my teeth are so well designed to process both meat and veggies. -- Owen On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 5:42 PM, glen <[email protected]> wrote: > > An appropriately timed interview in The Reasoner! > http://www.thereasoner.org/ > > Another thing I like about approaching argumentation this way is that it >> forces us to confront another question, viz., why do we argue? I mean that >> to be a teleological why with normative force—i.e., what should we want to >> get out of arguing?— not the why in search of a causal explanation. >> Epistemological and other cognitive considerations have to be prominent >> parts of an account of argumentation. Again, virtues approaches to >> argumentation embed arguing in a larger context: our cognitive lives. >> > > > > On 10/28/2015 04:05 PM, glen wrote: > >> On 10/28/2015 02:24 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: >> >>> >>> [NST==>Ok, you are forcing me to own up to my basic question. Why do >>> people who disagree with one another bother to talk? What is the good in >>> that? I assume it’s because we are striving for the non-zero-sum gains of >>> concerted action. Also, there is some evidence, I gather, that involving >>> more than one person in a decision actually improves the quality of the >>> decision. <==nst] >>> >> >> Well, my opinion isn't very useful, here. I tend to think we talk >> _mostly_ as a replacement for grooming each other. Or perhaps I should >> phrase it as: most of the talk we engage in is meaningless jabber that >> replaces grooming. But perhaps each of us, all of us, does engage in some >> sort of reprogramming, at least sporadically and rarely. >> >> The best I can do is tell you why _I_ talk (including these tl;dr >> e-mails). It is in the hopes that I will be reprogrammed. Every word I >> read, every noise I hear, wherever it comes from, whomever it comes from, >> _might_ reprogram me. There are other ways to be programmed (working in >> the garden, driving, hiking, etc.). But there is a kind of nuance to >> talk-talk-based reprogramming that is difficult to get at any other way. >> >> > -- > glen ep ropella -- 971-255-2847 > > > -- > ⇔ glen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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