Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: robert j. kolker (nowhere_at_nowhere.net)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:15:27 -0500

Tony Orlow (aeo6) wrote:
>
> Somehow, Allan, I think that sense of differences is inherent to the
> functioning of the brain and purpose of mind.

What mind? In ten thousand years of slicing and dicing human corpses
from crown to toe no sign of a mind has ever been found.

Bob Kolker

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