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>From: geb@speedy.cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
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Subject: Re: Scaled up slug brains
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Date: 17 Dec 91 14:08:55 GMT
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In article <60372@netnews.upenn.edu> weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
>In article <12723@pitt.UUCP>, geb@dsl (gordon e. banks) writes:
>>I also think evolution is a very strong case and have a hard time
>>seeing how there was suddenly a catastrophic change where the parent
>>used one form of neurobiology and the child suddenly uses another.
>>If we use phonon pumping in our neurons, it is a good bet that the
>>worms do too.
>
>It's not such a good bet.  In fact, phonon pumping makes it easy to
>explain a catastrophic change in mental evolutionary history.  The

So do the phonon theorists have any particular animal in mind?
Surely not something like Julian Jaynes where it just started 
happening in recent times (ancient Greece).  If so, it would seem
like such a radical change would result in some real observables.







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