Jim Henderson wrote:
>> And certainly a Christian's knowledge of the existence of God isn't
>> instinctive, or people wouldn't take children to Sunday School and read
>> passages out of the bible. Perhaps the tendency to religion or other
>> such stories is instinctive, but again is that "knowledge" or just a
>> natural tendency?
> 
> Some people come to that conclusion without formal training.  I know 
> several who are in that category.  I myself always had a particular idea 
> about how the universe worked that nobody taught me, nor really that I 
> figured out myself, I just seemed to know it.  Then I found that there 
> were others who had a similar view and that it had a name.  Since then, 
> I've kinda drifted because the "formal" part of that line of thinking 
> didn't mesh as well as I thought it did.
> 
> Jim
False perception. Before a certain age, almost no one remembers what 
they did or didn't *perceive*, and we have very clear cognitive studies 
that specify exactly when people *do* gain those things, as well as the 
earliest age that you are *likely* to remember things clearly. And, 
again, such perception is wrong a lot of the time, which is why magic 
tricks, visual tricks, etc. work **at all**. We learn, by handling the 
world around us, and experiencing it, what to expect in 99.9% of all 
cases, so.. you do something that fits in the other 0.1%, and our brains 
freak and start making things up, because it *can't* tell what is really 
going on. This is basic child development stuff, sheesh..

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void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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