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The Need for Trolls - How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect (but not the Troll's intellect)
from NYT article of the same name ("How Nonsense...") @
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/health/06mind.html?em "...when a hiker stumbles across an easy chair sitting deep in the woods, as if dropped from the sky - the brain gropes for something, anything that makes sense. It may retreat to a familiar ritual, like checking equipment. But it may also turn its attention outward, the researchers argue, and notice, say, a pattern in animal tracks that was previously hidden. The urge to find a coherent pattern makes it more likely that the brain will find one." Lest Art or Stefan stumble into this as vindication, the easy chair is their wild notions, we are the hikers that are left with the nonsensical application who then gain heightened perception. Students who were subjected to a story by Kafka (and anyone who has read through a tortured thread started by Art has experienced a lifetime's exposure to Kafka poisoning) were then tested in their ability to discover hidden patterns: "The fact that the group who read the absurd story identified more letter strings suggests that they were more motivated to look for patterns than the others," Dr. Heine said. "And the fact that they were more accurate means, we think, that they’re forming new patterns they wouldn’t be able to form otherwise." 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC |
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