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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.bio
Subject: Re: Question about Rupert Sheldrake
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Date: 4 Jun 90 17:42:55 GMT
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In article <21783@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, binkley@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Jon Binkley) writes:
> In article <1990Jun1.051632.5542@tc.fluke.COM> inc@tc.fluke.COM
> (Gary Benson) writes:
#  
# #Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall that the theory takes issue
# #with the standard explanation for the answers to questions like "why do all
# #squirrels look the same when there are so many vast differences in the
# #appearance of humans?"
# 
# I don't know what the standard explanation is, but my explanation is that
# Rupert Sheldrake is doing the looking, and he is human.  If you were to
# ask a squirrel, I imagine you'd get the converse observation.

In fact, this same syndrome is apparent in the "They all look alike to
me" problem.  As a general rule, we humans let the major differences
between races overwhelm our abilities to distinguish individual differences,
until we get enough familiarity with multiple members of a different
race that we can start to see the individuals.

# -jon


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