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From: long@oliveb.UUCP (Dave Long)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: the mammalian brain a kludge
Message-ID: <548@oliveb.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 05:26:08 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 05:26:08 1985
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In article <363@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) writes:
|                                                             While I will
| admit to the possability of the the human brain being a product of evolution, I think it highly unlikely.  It seems more likely to be the handiwork of a
| being or beings of whom the least we could say is that he or they were way
| the hell ahead of US in building things.  Not perfect maybe, but still ahead
| of us.

[Argument by Hypothesis Contrary to Theory]
    You have just mentioned *building* things, not designing them.  However
advanced anybody may have been to build a human brain, they should still be
shot for not having designed it well.  After all, I have to live in mine, and
there is *very* little chance that I will get a new version.
[TCHA]
						Dave Long
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