RE: A question regarding proof
September 9, 2011 at 9:23 pm
(This post was last modified: September 9, 2011 at 10:31 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Well, that didn't get far.
"David Bowsher, professor of neurophysiology at Liverpool said "Lorber's work doesn't demonstrate that we don't need a brain", and neurosurgeon Kenneth Till said that Lorber is "overdramatic when he says that someone has 'virtually no brain.'" Lorber admitted it later, saying that he "was only half serious", but defends himself with: "I can't say whether the mathematics student has a brain weighing 50 grams or 150 grams, but it is clear that it is nowhere near the normal 1.5 kilograms.". In his later years Lorber expressed great sorrow that more attention had not been paid to his sensational findings"
Amusingly upon loading the article you provided in my PDF viewer and enlarging it....the article itself actually contains within it most of the criticism above. So, in this case you've "merely" seen what you wanted in an article (the flashy headline tags) and ignored the meat of the article itself. The most important part of any piece of literature on science...is the criticism. That's how science gets so much done. It's a pitiless process in which careers are made and broken by aggressive skepticism.
(My comment about the brain was meant to be sarcastic and just going with it as thought it were completely true, as it turns out, it doesn't appear that it was. Maybe I should pass this along to snopes?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lorber
More links for those interested.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroprosthetics
(Shades of Johnny Mnemonic)
Did that turn out the way you saw it going down in your mind Frodo? You wouldn't believe all the crazy ass shit that I found this article being leveraged as support for btw..morphic resonance of past lives, etc.
"David Bowsher, professor of neurophysiology at Liverpool said "Lorber's work doesn't demonstrate that we don't need a brain", and neurosurgeon Kenneth Till said that Lorber is "overdramatic when he says that someone has 'virtually no brain.'" Lorber admitted it later, saying that he "was only half serious", but defends himself with: "I can't say whether the mathematics student has a brain weighing 50 grams or 150 grams, but it is clear that it is nowhere near the normal 1.5 kilograms.". In his later years Lorber expressed great sorrow that more attention had not been paid to his sensational findings"
Amusingly upon loading the article you provided in my PDF viewer and enlarging it....the article itself actually contains within it most of the criticism above. So, in this case you've "merely" seen what you wanted in an article (the flashy headline tags) and ignored the meat of the article itself. The most important part of any piece of literature on science...is the criticism. That's how science gets so much done. It's a pitiless process in which careers are made and broken by aggressive skepticism.
(My comment about the brain was meant to be sarcastic and just going with it as thought it were completely true, as it turns out, it doesn't appear that it was. Maybe I should pass this along to snopes?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lorber
More links for those interested.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroprosthetics
(Shades of Johnny Mnemonic)
Did that turn out the way you saw it going down in your mind Frodo? You wouldn't believe all the crazy ass shit that I found this article being leveraged as support for btw..morphic resonance of past lives, etc.
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