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John W Burgeson wrote:
[Hammond]
BTW, thanks for finding yourself able to say something to me without
being unnecessarily critical. Whether that is brilliance or tact
I'm uncertain, but it certainly is rare.
> >> Well, it means that the first people awoke after they had biologically
> appeared 6,000 years ago and discovered
> that a "15-billion year old world" had been instantly (on an Evolutionary
> time scale) been "Created by God".. fossils, and all.>>
>
> Interesting. Does this mean you are in substantial agreement with Gosse's
> claims in OMPHALOS?
[Hammond]
Well, you and I and Steven J. Gould and a lot of other
enlightened people can appreciate a spellbinding preacher
like Gosse who could spin a yarn that would entertain the
hardest bitten heretic and yet preach the word of God.
Certainly something a cloistered academic like myself
could never do, but something you and SJG can approach.
No, I'm afraid Gosse was more of a masterful preacher
while I'm simply a physicist (after all he could get their
attention and dazzle, entertain and confound them, I can't).
GH:
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> Or possibly with the claims of Jaynes in "THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS?"
[Hammond]
I talked to Julian Jaynes on the telephone a number of
times in the early 1980's and certainly regret his passing
a few years ago. He was a very enlightened and alert
man, and made a significant contribution by developing
public awareness of Sperrian Brain Lateralization with
his book. In fact, my Psychometry theory has now confirmed
that Sperry is one axis of the brain in Psychometry and
does account for one axis of the BI/2P System. Again,
experimental proof was not Jaynes' department.. guessing the
right answer and getting the public's attention was more
his line of work.
He had a sense of humor too... in fact told me that he
was having the book translated but had discovered that
there was no word for "Bicameral" in German.
>
> John Burgeson (Burgy)
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> www.burgy.50megs.com
> (science/theology, quantum mechanics, baseball, ethics,
> humor, cars, God's intervention into natural causation, etc.)
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