People are overly interested in intelligence. What's more important is conscience. Most people have one; sociopaths do not. Conscience is a FEELING of obligation to others, based in love. Its seat in the brain is in the limbic system, which includes the amygdala, where emotions reside. It has nothing to do with, and is far more important than, the cerebral cortex. If only Aristotle knew.
Oh god! It’s book-release month! Rhetoric me into a buy, if you’re so smart, buster. Also, here’s a tip: I read in the New Yorker yesterday about a podcaster named Barry Lam at the U of Cal. He hosts a “popular podcast” called Hi-Phi Nation, “applying philosophical modes to everyday topics.” Bingo! That’s you! it’s only too bad that Aubrey couldn’t come on the show with you, to promote your damn book. Meowhydonchabuyabook?
I'll put the publicist on to Hi-Phi Nation, thanks! Aubrey died before he turned 3; I believe he was needed elsewhere on this planet, or maybe another one.
It actually could be a funny post to have me raise arguments against buying your damn book, and you philosophizing me out of them. We could do it as an email exchange, and I could add drawings for a cross-post. What think? That might be fun.
Yeah, boy! Tell me why you're such a loser that you don't want to do summer better and ski better than anyone in your family and read the news without throwing up and, I don't know, learn to draw? Seriously. Let's do an exchange. Let's do a cross-post. Brilliant. And I love your art (and didn't even put quotes around "art") and don't think you're a loser at all.
People are overly interested in intelligence. What's more important is conscience. Most people have one; sociopaths do not. Conscience is a FEELING of obligation to others, based in love. Its seat in the brain is in the limbic system, which includes the amygdala, where emotions reside. It has nothing to do with, and is far more important than, the cerebral cortex. If only Aristotle knew.
I do hope you'll read my book, Bella, and then tell me what you think of the obligation of love--a quality the Greeks called Philos.
Oh god! It’s book-release month! Rhetoric me into a buy, if you’re so smart, buster. Also, here’s a tip: I read in the New Yorker yesterday about a podcaster named Barry Lam at the U of Cal. He hosts a “popular podcast” called Hi-Phi Nation, “applying philosophical modes to everyday topics.” Bingo! That’s you! it’s only too bad that Aubrey couldn’t come on the show with you, to promote your damn book. Meowhydonchabuyabook?
I'll put the publicist on to Hi-Phi Nation, thanks! Aubrey died before he turned 3; I believe he was needed elsewhere on this planet, or maybe another one.
It actually could be a funny post to have me raise arguments against buying your damn book, and you philosophizing me out of them. We could do it as an email exchange, and I could add drawings for a cross-post. What think? That might be fun.
Yeah, boy! Tell me why you're such a loser that you don't want to do summer better and ski better than anyone in your family and read the news without throwing up and, I don't know, learn to draw? Seriously. Let's do an exchange. Let's do a cross-post. Brilliant. And I love your art (and didn't even put quotes around "art") and don't think you're a loser at all.