Joel Weierman reply

MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu
Wed May 7 21:13:51 CDT 1997


In a solid post, Brian M writes:
<snip>

>This accessability is what makes his work "difficult".  Real thought *is*
>difficult: just try to spend a day tracking your own. 

Doesn't this idea actually get explicitly stated somewhere in GR?  Wish I could remember 
where, but I seem to recall that it was enlightening to realize that real thought is a pain in 
the neck and that what we mostly do is just hum along on auto-pilot most of the time. 
(including, unfortunately, most of the time we post.  Mea maxima culpa)
john m




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