<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Can't keep to one topic sounds like me, interested in everything, Jack of many trades. I thought it would benefit my students to bring in biology, sociology, physics, anything to relate material to something else. What I realized was that my best students could follow me but the average student tended to be lost. It is such an enormous advantage to come to class (as a student) having understood some of the material already. It's hard to relate something to something else when you don't know the first something at all.<br>
<br></div>I went to grad school as a Freudian, if anything, into a department that was Skinnerian. Big misfit. But I have had the last laugh, as the unconscious, genetics and other aspects of biology have come to the fore. I love neuroscience. In fact, in my book tastes and smells have been studied so much (fMRI) that their foods are guaranteed to light up the pleasure centers.<br>
<br></div>I've read whole books on water, dust (much of ours from China - bad), and you name it. WishI could remember all of it. Of course I have read philosophy and in some ways consider myself one. I think I favor Hume, mostly, though I may also be an Epicurean. Pick and choose, like Protestants and their Bible.<br>
<br></div><div>Interdepartmental studies - now that would have been perfect for me.<br><br></div><div>A Don at Oxford, eh? Called Spike. Cool!<br><br></div><div>Bill<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 6:48 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 08, 2014 1:26 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] far future<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">
<span style="color:#1f497d">>…</span>I am a psychologist and want to avoid all topics that are just beyond me because of my education and my age (72). I once tried to read a book on quantum theory and got halfway through before it just blew my mind wide open. Maybe 50 years ago or even 40, but not now<span style="color:#1f497d">…</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Dr. Wallace, don’t worry, quantum theory blew my mind wide open when I was still a teenager, and continues to do so even to this day, more than 30 yrs later. I performed the double slit experiment in a physics lab in college. It never stopped blowing my mind. If I hadn’t actually seen it happened, I would still be an unbeliever.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p>
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