Today's Topics:
Brain editing
Mike Jittlov
Subgenius Digest
Zapruder in ASCII
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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 92 22:56:24 EST
From: Michael Turyn <mturyn@psyche.mit.edu>
Message-Id: <9201100356.AA05151@psyche.mit.edu>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject:
Note that none of the Dead Kennedy Boys' activities were inconsistent with---
and in fact are typical of, especially the cortisone---the psychic life of
nearly all subGenius saints....
------``Too much war, poverty, and hate is better than not enough war, poverty,
and hate.''
P.S.: Saint Palmer Vreedes if the model for one of the main characters in
``In the Blood'', the latest good book by St. Nanzi Regalia [Nancy
Collins]. There is of course the historic Dobbs Building in San Fran-
cisco in one scene....
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Message-Id: <9201091720.AA01561@mahler>
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Brain editing
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 92 12:20:19 -0500
From: Michael Travers <mt@media.mit.edu>
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From: revpk@cellar.org (Brian 'Rev P-K' Siano)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology,sci.skeptic,alt.rock-n-roll.metal
Subject: An Amusing Anecdote
Date: 29 Dec 91 20:37:07 GMT
>From "Consciousness Explained" by Daniel Dennett, pages 58-59.
Copyright 1991 Daniel Dennett. Little Brown and Company, 1991.
A neurosurgeon once told me about operating on the brain of a
young man with epilepsy. As is customary in this kind of operation,
the patient was wide awake, under only local anesthesia, whjile the
surgon delicately explored his exposed cortex, making sure that the
parts tentatively to be removed were not absolutely vital by
stimulating them electrically and asking the patient what he
experienced. Some stimulations produced visual flashes or
hand-raisings, others a sort of buzzing sensation, but one spot
produced a delighted response from the patient: "It's 'Outta Get Me,'
by Guns N'Roses, my favorite heavy metal band!"
I asked the neurosurgeon if he had asked the patient to sing or
hum along with the music, since it would be fascinating to learn how
'high fidelity' the provoked memory was. Would it be in exactly the
same key and tempo as the record? Such a song (unlike 'Silent Night')
has one canonical version, so we could simply have superimposed a
recording of the patient's humming with the standard record and
compared the results. Unfortunately, even though a tape recorder had
been running during the operation, the surgeon hadn't asked the
patient to sing along. "Why not?" I asked, and he replied: "I hate
rock music."
Later in the conversation the neurosurgeon happened to remark
that he was going to have to operate again on the same young man, and
I expressed the hope that he would just check to see if he could
restimulate the rock music, and this time ask the fellow to sing
along. "I can't do it," replied the neurosurgeon, "since I cut out
that part." "It was part of the epileptic focus?" I asked, and he
replied, "No, I already told you-- I hate rock music!"
Brian "Rev. P-K" Siano
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Newsgroups: sci.psychology,sci.skeptic,alt.rock-n-roll.metal
From: mccreary@compaq.com (Ed McCreary)
Subject: Re: An Amusing Anecdote
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1991 22:49:15 GMT
[Some discussion deleted -- NLC]
Way back when I used to work at a hospital here in town, I'd go to the
OR theater (the one with the dome and seats) when I needed a break.
One day, a neuro guy was cutting along, trying to remove a tumor when
he accidently removed a section of good brain. His remark was, "Oops
there go the guitar lessons."
- --
McCreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com Computers are like Old Testament gods;
EMcCreary@uh.edu lots of rules and no mercy.
#include <stddisclaimer.h> Joseph Campbell
"Ooooohhhh we got movie sign!!" MST3K
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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 92 01:33:31 EST
From: Steven Mesnick <steffan@pro-angmar.alfalfa.com>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Mike Jittlov
I met Jittlov at a SF-film marathon a couple years ago. He's a wonderfully
strange guy. That bit about not shaking hands is for real.
The film is a hoot; the basic plot is strange independent-thinker defies
corporate-yahoos to further strange personal vision. Sound familiar?
The Dobbshead isn't the only inside joke. If there are any Trekkers out
there, check out the poster in the producer's outer office. Now read the
credits and check out who played the producer's secretary.
Rabbi Lamedh Vofnik
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Internet: steffan@pro-angmar.alfalfa.com
steffan@world.std.com
UUCP: uunet!alfalfa!pro-angmar!steffan
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Reply-To: vec@kodak.com
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 92 09:08:43 EST
From: Vance Cochrane <vec@kodak.com>
Message-Id: <9201091408.AA11800@acadia.Kodak.COM>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Subgenius Digest
please remove me from the list.
lost its slack.
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From: "The Rt. Rev. Wor. Dr. Y. Foo" <dryfoo@athena.mit.edu>
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Zapruder in ASCII
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 92 12:25:26 EST
In honor of the release of the flim JFK, and the subsequent discussion
of the assassination on major news nets, and on this one, Time/Life
Books is pleased to announce its new series:
"The Zapruder Film in ASCII"
Here's a sample:
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