RE: The Brain=Mind Fallacy
June 5, 2012 at 11:56 pm
(This post was last modified: June 5, 2012 at 11:58 pm by Tempus.)
(June 5, 2012 at 5:41 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I am sorry, but she was NOT an economist nor a PHD scientist. She was a play writer and book writer and political pundit. The atheist version of Ann Coulter. All the economic credulity of laymen with the same woo. I can drive a car and know it is not run on pixy dust, I am certainly just as qualified as she claimed to be.
All she did is successfully market an idea. BIG WOOPTY FUCK. She was an ornate writer and had a big vocabulary. SO WHAT. Lemmings are fooled by the ornate.
Ann Coulter and Ayn Rand are BOTH delusional.
Wtf? I wasn't appealing to Ayn Rand as an authority on anything*, it was a quote which - in addition to having nothing to do with economics, politics or Ann Coulter - concisely summarised what I wanted to say. If anything, you seem to be doing a vague appeal to authority by saying she wasn't an economist, or didn't have a Ph.D therefore she couldn't have possibly been correct about anything or have had anything of value to say (even on unrelated topics!). Whether or not you think that, I don't know, but I'm getting that impression. If you'd stop fixating on the author of the quote you might actually have some time to actually look at it.
*I actually disagree with some (possibly many if I knew more) of the things she's said / positions she held. All in all, I'm really not that familiar with her - I guess you could say I know enough to know that I don't want know any more. My personal dislike of her or disagreement with her on other matters does not affect the truth value of the particular statement quoted.
