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21017: Re: [MUD-Dev] Geometric content generation

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From: "Sasha Hart" <Sasha.Hart@directory.reed.edu>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: 10 Oct 2001 22:43:56 PDT
Organization: Kanga.Nu
[Caliban]

> This makes everything you do in your entire life patently absurd.

<snip>

> ... It's a classic example of logical fallacy.

> Why such alternatives were ignored is simply beyond me, and
> probably stems from the unwillingness of researchers to claim that
> some more illustrious personage in the field was probably wrong.

Well, to my knowledge the main research of the variety you describe
is that of Benjamin Libet. I wouldn't say that he is *particularly*
illustrious; those experiments in particular are particularly
controversial, and lots of people have many good arguments against
Libet's interpretations of his data.  Certainly many psychologists
I've met think his wide-ranging conclusions about free will etc. are
at least odd if not entirely questionable, and Daniel Dennett has
written a lot on the same topic (why Libet is wrong for one reason
or another.)

Sasha
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