Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:49:13 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:
> 
>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:10:36 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is basic child development stuff, sheesh..
>>> Well, you may have a background in child development.  I don't. 
>>> Sheesh.
>>>
>>> Jim
>> Actually, no I don't, but I read **a lot**, especially since, starting
>> some 20 years ago, I had a fascination with AI, and the logical means to
>> learn about why it didn't work well, once I found that, is to learn how
>> the mind worked. My discovery was, sadly, that real brains don't work
>> much better, they just have a more robust system of, "fill in the blanks
>> and hope it works".
> 
> My point stands, you've read more about it than I do.  So your expressed 
> "disdain" for what I said that you said was "basic child development 
> stuff" really was misplaced, which kinda was my point.
> 
> Jim
Hmm. Point taken. But, then, I also tend to forget that not everyone 
necessarily took even the basic psychology course I did in college 
either, which covered at least bits of it too. Still, its harder to miss 
some of the common examples of mind tricks, which have been shown on TV 
programs. But, again, that only works if you presume they where watching 
the show on "Funny tricks played on people using psychology.", instead 
of, "Random sitcom #345, in which someone trips over a hose.", that day 
instead. lol Or, well... you get what I mean. Picking things with, 
relatively, *zero* content in new ideas, or which tend to feed into 
common perception, or not watching at all, instead of pointing out where 
those perceptions fail, etc.

I suppose... Its sort of similar to the reaction that someone who has 
gone to church every day for 20 years (but probably never read the Bible 
on their own from cover to cover, in my, and other's experience), 
wondering how I don't **get** how all the "truths" they know are valid. 
But, its not *quite* the same thing, since, imho, they are the people 
standing, like the natives in one of the other posts, looking out at a 
field and going, "How did you make cows the size of flies?" I definitely 
need to remember that one.

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