Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id SAA22119 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:53:48 GMT X-Originating-IP: [137.110.248.206] From: "Grant Callaghan" <grantc4@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Knowledge, Memes and Sensory Perception Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 10:49:23 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <LAW2-F792REZTBqmD9T000017a0@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Jan 2002 18:49:24.0241 (UTC) FILETIME=[59CF9810:01C19DF5] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
So I guess you don't believe that light affects how you react to your
environment or that the palcebo effect has any influence on how people feel.
Well, there seems to be a lot of evidence to the contrary, including how
light affects your sense of time and well being. I'll bet you don't even
believe that what you believe has a lot to do with what you perceive. But
that's what belief does for you.
Grant
>
>On Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 10:07 , Grant Callaghan wrote:
>
>>After I analyzed them, I realized they would fit just about
>>anybody regardless of when they were born or what sex they were.
>
>James Randi is still doing the show and tell where a group of
>people are given some pages of their horoscope, supposedly
>derived from their birthdates, which they were asked to supply
>prior to the meeting.
>
>They are all asked if what they read related to them
>specifically, and they usually say yes. Then they are asked to
>pass their horoscope back to the person behind them, and they
>are asked again.
>
>The fact is, of course, that they were all given the same horoscope.
>
>>I can understand acupuncture and feng shui. They have some
>>valid principles behind them.
>
>They have absolutely no valid principles behind, around, or
>through them whatsoever.
>
>- Wade
>
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