Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 16:40:28 -0400 From: Marc Ramirez <marc.ramirez@bluecirclesoft.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggestion for /usr/src/UPDATING Message-ID: <200409011640.48944.marc.ramirez@bluecirclesoft.com> In-Reply-To: <000001c4905c$3dd35eb0$56171aac@slackey> References: <000001c4905c$3dd35eb0$56171aac@slackey>
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=2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 01 September 2004 03:45 pm, Joshua Lokken wrote: > David Syphers wrote: > > On Tuesday 31 August 2004 02:18 pm, Mike Hunter wrote: > >> * Nerves from the brain cross over at neck-level to the opposite side > >> of the * body, and nerves from the other side of the brain > >> reciprocate. The end * result is that the opposite sides of the body > >> are supplied by the opposite * sides of the brain. > >> > >> So it's deceptive to think that using the left hand would correspond > >> to the *idea* of something on the left. > > > > Is there any reason to think that the idea of "left" is dealt with by > > the left side of the brain? Sounds highly unlikely to me. You > > certainly don't think of "front" only with the prefrontal cortex, or > > "back" only with the occipital lobe. > > Actually, it's the inverse; the left brain handles right-side > operations, and vice versa. I think he was talking about which sides handle the concepts, and he has a= =20 point. Except that the concept of "grey wrinkly organs" is handled by a gr= ey=20 wrinkly organ... Never say never. "This statement is false" is true half= =20 the time. :) =2D --=20 Marc Ramirez Blue Circle Software Corporation 513-688-1070 (main) 513-382-1270 (direct) http://www.bluecirclesoft.com http://www.mrami.com (personal) =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBNjPGg1EgpGw750IRAgZ9AKDLU9iacku6aZ/6ZN88tfHxG0cymwCfZsqI JfMO2c9InBy7lIkpDtwQZAM=3D =3DSL6J =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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