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- From: Tagi@cup.portal.com (Thyagi Morgoth NagaSiva)
- Newsgroups: alt.mud
- Subject: Re: MUDs and Reality (Theory)
- Message-ID: <72549@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 09:50:43 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- Ken Badertscher writes:
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- The thing that bothers me most about this essay is that it reeks of
- objectivism. I recommend that the author pick up a copy of:
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- Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
- (What Categories Reveal about the Mind)
- by George Lakoff.
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- This excellent cognitive science text explores the dubious assumptions
- inherent in objectivism, and posits a new model of cognition:
- experientialism.
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- While this book may not do much to diffuse the author's mystical
- interpretations of reality and virtual reality, it may offer new
- insights into the cognitive biases imposed by objectivism.
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- Response:
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- Fascinating. Now I KNOW I'm on the right track. I'm being bashed on
- the one hand by 'Objectivists' who think I'm being 'overly subjective'
- and by 'Subjectivists' who think I'm being 'over objective'. Kind of
- makes my heart just glow with delight.
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- I'd LOVE to see a review of the theory which shows how steeped in
- objectivism it truly is. It'd do me a world of good, I'm sure.
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- Thanks for the reference.
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- Thyagi
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