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To: LoneClone who wrote (15963)	7/12/2006 1:30:11 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) of 78419

Great story LC. I love to hear stories like that. I am a bit of a romantic-lol; and my daughter says getting sentimental in my old age-lol. Both Bertrand Russell and Alfred North whitehead turned from math to philosophy at the age of 55 saying the questions they had could not be answered by math. Bertrand Russells 3 book biography is must reading. And whitehead is light years ahead of most professors in thinking. Whitehead walked the thin line between sanity and insanity and Russell had to put money into whitehead's accounts from time to time as he seldom new what he had in there-lol. So today two of the best mathematicians that ever lived (mathematica principia in 1916) are known more for their contributions to philosophy than to math. I think one needs to understand both. Regarding chess. I was a very mediocre chess player, but am not afraid of anyone at the poker table. I think chess takes natural left brain talent to go very far. Mainly being able to calculate many moves ahead. Poker is the great equalizer for we right brained people. Our entire society is set up for left brained people, like IQ tests and SAT's. Someday we will realize we are excluding a lot of good thinkers from universities because of this. A right brained person can beat a left brain person in poker as bluffing and tactics are more important than statistical knowledge which a normal person can easily master. Many engineeer's, math and physics guys play poker. None of which I could compete with in their respective fields, but I never worry about them a bit when playing. When my daughter went to Berkeley I would play with tons of these guys at the local card room "Oaks" where many were paying for their schooling with poker. I just work at confusing them with an agressive game of a combination of tactical and random plays and they are as easy to beat as anyone. My guess is that even though they are good at computing, they are sort of blind to bluffing. The right brain can "see" better than the left brain I believe. Easy to bluff a blind man-lol.

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