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Edited on Thu Feb-05-04 12:29 AM by arendt
Aside to Pete:
Pete, I like you, but this metaphor does not work. In this, I'm not attacking Kerry, but the metaphor. I spent twenty years fighting the hard-AI crowd and the death throws of Logical Positivism. I hate the totally discredited notion that rationality is the driving force of human minds. It just ain't so. Read Antonio Damasio or any good cognitive scientist.
Believe me when I say its nothing personal.
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When the other side can re-invent reality on command, how can anyone say "chance is practically eliminated"? The media is used to push peoples' IRRATIONAL buttons, not to rationally and logically convince them.
Its all about psychological manipulation, not logic. A chess metaphor is sooooo off-base, so lame, so 19th century "Laplacian Dream". (ref supplied on request)
And, what, all of us peons are supposed to swoon at grandmaster Kerry? The guy who was muttering "Dean, Dean, Dean" until the press kneecapped Dean and decided to give Kerry the puff coverage. Give me a break. Kerry is the momentary recipient of the media inflation, because until they've been built up, the media can't knock them down.
arendt
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