Re: [MD] Minding half of your brain?

2014-05-30 Thread Ian Glendinning
I doubt John claimed belief that Pirsig's classical and romantic modes of thinking are neurological determined. More like neurologically supported, predictable, consistent, consilient, few things are determined in this world. It is far from nonsense to to bring cross-discipline material

Re: [MD] Minding half of your brain?

2014-05-30 Thread ARLO JAMES BENSINGER JR
[Ian] I doubt John claimed belief that Pirsig's classical and romantic modes of thinking are neurological determined. [Arlo] No, you're right. He had reversed his claim into classic/romantic modes of thinking causes left/right brainedness. [Ian] More like neurologically supported, predictable,

Re: [MD] Minding half of your brain?

2014-05-30 Thread Ron Kulp
Ian had said: It is far from nonsense to to bring cross-discipline material into the discussion. In fact that's the very point of IAI (your link DMB). I was at the IAI How The Light Gets In Festival last weekend and earlier this week at Hay on Wye, and most sessions involved combinations

Re: [MD] Minding half of your brain?

2014-05-30 Thread John Carl
Ron,Ron: From the death of expertise Having equal rights does not mean having equal talents, equal abilities, or equal knowledge. It assuredly does not mean that “everyone’s opinion about anything is as good as anyone else’s.” And yet, this is now enshrined as the credo of a fair number of

Re: [MD] Minding half of your brain?

2014-05-30 Thread david
dmb quoted from Hacker's article, Why Study Philosophy?: The only way to scrutinise concepts is to examine the use of the words that express them. Conceptual investigations are investigations into what makes sense and what does not. And, of course, questions of sense precede questions of

[MD] Minding half of your brain?

2014-05-24 Thread david
Arlo said to John: ...You're making a very specific claim, in order to reduce Pirsig's problematic classical/romantic schism to one that is determined by neurophysiology. I'm saying, the current research does not support that at all.What's critical here is that you're not making the claim