If you feel compelled to tell others you’re an adult, it’s a safe bet you’re not quite there yet.
In his article, “Barack isn’t my Daddy," Erik Telford’s lack of understanding of the health care bill is significant. As if to simultaneously refute and insist upon his physiological status as an adult (the prefrontal and temporal cortices are still maturing well into one’s 20s), the 25-year-old Telford takes issue with the bill’s use of the word “child”; limits his ageist issues with the bill to those in his age group; misinterprets a passage such that he thinks the government will “force my parents” to do something they will not be forced to do; and uses a 113-year-old legislative failure as the cornerstone of this misinterpretation.…
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376 - Les Slater
Some humor, Goldman: 'We would never intentionally mislead anyone'
377 - roger nowosielski
Well, Les. I'm not certain where you want to go with your #367 (as per #375 transcript). Do we need a general hypothesis to account for the mechanics of human learning - be it by way of "working memory" or "social learning" (via copying, for example)? Is there more to it than an expression of a blind hope?
Why not simply take present thinking (and language) about our social/political/economic problems and simply extrapolate by projecting or imagining the future?
378 - roger nowosielski
So Les, do you want to continue with this detour into Darwinism? What is the payoff?