[ExI] LA Times: Misreading the mind

[Damien Broderick]

At 09:12 AM 1/22/2008 -0500, Mike Dougherty wrote:

> > Looks as if you missed the signal in Lee's artfully sardonic post,
> > which means you missed the meaning as well.
>
>I got it.

Oh. Sorry. In that case, I missed the signal in *your* post.

>It seems to be the nature of list-based discussion that
>every reply is assumed first to be a counterpoint or argument.

Well, it is hard not to read your response to Lee in that way, I 
think; you wrote:

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On Jan 21, 2008 7:02 PM, Lee Corbin <lcorbin at rawbw.com> wrote:
 > (Actually, we do derive a sort of mean-spirited satisfaction---
 > that can sometimes come close to pleasure---by bursting the
 > bubbles of the weak-minded who fail to understand that life
 > is meaningless, and that art and music and so on have no real
 > validity.)

Just because you aren't able to find signal among the noise doesn't
imply there is no meaning.
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Damien Broderick