[extropy-chat] eating god flesh

[Damien Broderick]

At 04:35 PM 9/1/2004 -0400, Natasha wrote:

>Didn't Aristotle weight his wife's brain

No. Well, he weighted it with some of his memes, but they're not very heavy.

>only to discover that yes, indeed
>her brain weighed less, thus she was less intelligent than the
>heavy-weighted brains of her husband and his colleagues.

Aristotle was of the opinion that brains serve to cool the blood, so he 
would not have been able to make such a connection anyway.

Damien Broderick