Re: Books I bought in 2008(a)

David Harmon wrote:

On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:02:21 -0500 in rec.arts.sf.written, Konrad
Gaertner <kgaertner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote,
Walter Bushell wrote:

"Neurons can't think, therefore a bunch of them can't think either.",
was the gist of the grader's remarks?

I would've skipped the middle man and gone straight to "atoms can't
think either".

Quarks can't think. Wait a minute, is anybody really sure quarks
can't think? The behave in ways I can't explain and do things nobody
can predict in detail.

That's why I went with atoms; the sort of person I'd be arguing
against either hasn't heard of quarks or has heard of quantum
mechanics. Atoms are so much simpler and more obviously unthinking.

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