Prosthetic Paradise (was Re: pynchon-l-digest V2 #1012

[David Morris]

>From: "Terrance F. Flaherty" rj wrote:
> >
> > I have to agree with Frodeaux and David here.
> >
> > > A pen is just like a
> > > finger?
> >
> > Yes. Each can communicate human thought. Each can poke you in the eye.
>
>I can poke a man in the eye with a duck and I can
>communicate human thought with my eye. A pen is just like a
>finger, a duck, an eye, ....?
>
>Nonsense, how are they all just like a pen?
>

The late Carl Sagan guest-lectured my Psych 101 (1977) class at Cornell.  He 
told us freshmen that once the human female pelvis reached its limit for 
passing a bigger head libraries had to take up the slack for human 
biological limits.  That made a lot of sense, although it could be argued 
that human brain cell might have gotten more efficient...

Best from me too,
David Morris

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