This is dumb. I hate when cognitive psychology draws such linear, non-insightful conclusions from their silly experiments and presents them as revelatory, as necessary, as the only possible theory that can explain this behavior. I can think of dozens of alternative explanations for his experimental results that are equally as compelling. Most likely, some combination of all these alternative explanations for behaviour are all true at the same time, and it is not so easy to come up with a cute theory and catchy tagline to get at such a truth. Example #18827 of a profiteering pseudo-scientist prostituting science.
Posted by: Félix E. F. Larocca, MD | Sep 19, 2012 8:49:51 PM
I feel like Lessig would counter that music downloading is not morally analogous to stealing food from a restaurant because the human ability to produce (or copy) food is not unbound to the point of post-scarcity as it is with digital ephemera.
Secondly this speech (taken and unpaid for) seems to have inspired
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This is dumb. I hate when cognitive psychology draws such linear, non-insightful conclusions from their silly experiments and presents them as revelatory, as necessary, as the only possible theory that can explain this behavior. I can think of dozens of alternative explanations for his experimental results that are equally as compelling. Most likely, some combination of all these alternative explanations for behaviour are all true at the same time, and it is not so easy to come up with a cute theory and catchy tagline to get at such a truth. Example #18827 of a profiteering pseudo-scientist prostituting science.
Posted by: Max | Sep 18, 2012 9:24:08 AM
Read:
The Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations
Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Frank C. Keil, Joshua Goodstein, Elizabeth Rawson, and Jeremy R. Gray
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2778755/
Posted by: Félix E. F. Larocca, MD | Sep 19, 2012 8:49:51 PM
I feel like Lessig would counter that music downloading is not morally analogous to stealing food from a restaurant because the human ability to produce (or copy) food is not unbound to the point of post-scarcity as it is with digital ephemera.
Secondly this speech (taken and unpaid for) seems to have inspired
http://www.viruscomix.com/page570.html
Posted by: ThinkAfrica | Sep 22, 2012 9:05:35 AM
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