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What argument?... That was a manual...
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Apparently you missed the point.
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I do believe many people hold this in high regard, but many people probably don't want to read a manual on something most of us already feel we are capable of doing...
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Exactly, they don't examine the question because they
feel they understand what they are doing. They make no separation between their "squirrel decisions" and their "logical decisions". If you want to have a "rational" discussion, you should make an effort to understand the separation I am talking about.
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I think I lost sight of the issue after one third of the first post.... wonder how many times I've erred since then  . Dr. dick, your posts are long (EXTREMELY ), use proper English, and I have yet to find a single spelling error  . You do seem to have trouble conveying your thoughts through text though. Perhaps you should rehearse what you're going to write in your mind (To make sure it will be clear to readers, and not just yourself) or at least revise what you have already written, so all excess material is removed and just the gist of what you're getting at remains  . |
It appears to me that the problem is one of attention span. That's the basic problem in trying to have a rational conversation: i.e., when it comes to logical analysis, people simply fail to keep a sufficient breadth of relevant information in mind and instead, rely on their intuition to keep them safe. They essentially lose sight of what they can defend and what they cannot defend.
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FINALLY, we agree on something . I find that last part to be rather flattering, thanks  .  |
What was it that we agreed upon? That most breakthroughs are accomplished by youngsters??? That is a well known fact. I asked for your explanation of that fact and you simply ignored the issue.
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If you have a good answer for that one I would like to hear it. I have one; a very specific answer.
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It appears to me that you just blindly read what I wrote hoping that understanding would arise within your mind by some Zen process ("squirrel decisions"); you seem to presume that you should be able to understand what I was talking about without any logical analysis of it at all. You should have stopped after the first sentence that didn't make sense to you and asked me about that statement.
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I'll get back to this tomorrow, starting at post number 9, after your third quote from Buffy...
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Attention span is not a measure of how
long one can continue to accept incoming information. It is rather a measure of how long and how much information can be considered on a conscious level without resorting to compartmentalization (which is essentially ignoring the connections). I think you have already compartmentalized most of what you read. It will never make any sense to you if you cannot comprehend the difference between the two modes of thought.
Please do not take offense at anything I have said; I do not mean to depreciate your efforts. Success can not be achieved without effort.
Have fun -- Dick
Knowledge is Power
and the most common abuse of that power is to use it to hide stupidity
