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"Where shall we go next?" Metaphysics, Poker and Life.
Undomiciled Itinerary
- Ann Arbor, MI (now)
- Florida (sometime)
- Texas (later)
- California (someday soon)
- Elsewhere (once & future)
Blog Archive
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2012
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October
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- Halloween in the Wine Country
- Don't Be Fooled
- You're Voting for Who?
- Doonesbury Today
- Timely Cartoon
- Tattoos as Self Mutilation
- Voting for Your True Self
- Quadrennial Political Rant - 2012
- George McGovern
- What was that definition of insanity?
- Think About It
- The Wrong Candidate Arrested
- Liberal Brain/Conservative Brain
- Presidential Propaganda is to . . .
- and for President of the United States
- I'm Just Sayin'
- The Crush 2012
- Racism: On the Right and the Left
- Good Question
- "They"
- Choice?
- Farmer's Market Politics
- Romantic Fatalism
- Well there is that . . .
- A Far Off Image
- Defending My Position
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October
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My other writings of note...
- Big Man (3/09)
- Exit Interview from the World of Poker (9/09)
- Five Dollars for the Colonel (6/07)
- Hellmuthian Reflections (6/07)
- Manichean Worldview (6/10)
- Medical Marijuana Series (2011)
- Movies of My Life (12/08)
- Oh Canada (11/12)
- Quadrennial Political Rant (10/12)
- Some Thoughts on Therapy (11/08)
- Three Strikes and You're In (3/07)
- Traffic Jam at the Top of the World (3/10)
- Two Million Chips (9/06)
- World Series of Penny (6/09)
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1 comment:
The cognitive scientists say it's two things. A kind of hypothetical fairness ("if I were rich, I wouldn't want the government to give my money to a bunch of freeloaders"); and deference to authority ("these smart, powerful people earned their place in society and they must know best"). The idea is that it goes to deeply embedded, almost unconscious, value preferences. Now, how to get the neocortex to the table?
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