Re: Attempt to halt the refuting problem

From: Barb Knox (see_at_sig.below)
Date: 08/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:40:48 +1200

In article <6e9ef988c8817797c2bd368f08e4b162.48257@mygate.mailgate.org>,
 "Kent Paul Dolan" <xanthian@well.com> wrote:
[snip]

>The chicken who can break eye contact with the snake
>is the chicken that lives to reproduce, yet these
>countless generations after the first snake
>mesmerized the first chicken, snakes still dine on
>chickens with no better chicken capturing tools than
>Olcott brings to bear to incapacitating _his_ prey.
>
>This indicates a high level flaw in the design of
>the bicameral chicken mind, methinks.

I strongly suspect that Jaynes (were he still alive) would disagree that
chickens have bicameral minds, even if they do have bilateral brains. But
maybe they do, and so routinely hallucinate messages from the Big Chicken
when under stress. Sadly for them, the messages clearly do not include the
chicken equivalent of "Hey moron, that's a snake; don't just stand there
like a dumb cluck..." 

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