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Subject: Re: Intelligence Testing
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>From: chisnall@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (The Technicolour Throw-up)
Date: 23 Jan 92 14:49:21 +1300
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>From article <1992Jan22.192721.16777@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>, by chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers):
> This certainly isn't a valid argument, as presumably most brain-states
> will be never reachable through conversation alone -- e.g. a 
> post-orgasmic state (though you never know), a tasting-strawberries
> state, and so on.

We do know.  A few years ago I was reading a review, in Nature I think, of a
book by some leading sexologist and one of the examples from the book that was
mentioned in the review was of some guy who could achieve orgasm by listening
to church sermons.

No real relevance to the argument but I thought that some people might enjoy
this rather bizarre piece of trivia.
--
Just my two rubber ningis worth.
Name: Michael Chisnall          email: chisnall@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz


