Ron Blue wrote:
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> It is more likely that a brain will organize itself so that amputee wannabees
> personality desires will be congruent with George Hammond's Cartesian
> personality model than to be excluded because his model was peer reviewed and
> amputee wannabees personalities were not.
[Hammond]
Ron... first of all any veteran of mental health studies knows
that this amputation thing is related to sado-masochistic
threat.. the same reason aboriginals or street punks put
studs in their noses or belly buttons.. to threaten YOU.
I was living in a flop house where one of the residents
(mentally ill) walked by a construction site and picked up a
Skill-saw and severed his left arm above the elbow, in front of
25 horrified construction workers.
But to relate this thing to Cartesian body geometry is
ridiculous... unless you are going to argue that Republicans
will cut off their Left limbs and Democrats will cut off
their Right limbs. There might be a correlation there.. but
I'll bet it wouldn't exceed r=0.3 at the most.
However, there probably is a correlation, since they found
in frontal lobotomy studies a Right-Left brain hemisphere
correlation with Manic (Right wing) and Neurotic (Left wing)
patients.
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> Ron Blue
>
> Ron Blue wrote:
> >
> > "Amputee wannabees" http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/12/elliott.htm
> feels
> > related to a Cartesian model of the body in the brain. This is similar to
> > George Hammond's report on personality.
>
> [Hammond, disclaimer]
> Obviously, this kind of pseudoscientific and voyeristic
> sensationalism has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to to with Hammond's
> work which has been published in the peer reviewed
> academic research journals.
> George Hammond
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