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To: LindyBill who wrote (13717)	12/31/1999 9:38:00 PM
From: bowledover	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 54805

LindyBill: "Not really, bowled. I said he was a marketing guy with a social science background. He is a Liberal Arts English Major in Literature, PHD style, which is even worse than a Social Science Major, (also a liberal arts major, IMO) as far as having any hard science training or study." Yes really. You were mistaken and just can't admit it. Raising liberal arts now is a canard. You said 'social science' and took a cheap shot under the old red herring guise that somehow or other there is real science and then social science. The fact that you claim an English major is "even worse etc" just shows your ignorance of knowledge, cognitive styles, the history of thought (science, philosophy, religion etc.) and its 'expression' vis-a-vis cultural accomplishment, and, the role of language and imagination in any knowledge endeavor.

To: LindyBill who wrote (13717)	1/1/2000 10:15:00 AM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Lindy, Surely you must be kidding. I can't imagine that you would post such nonsense about the liberal arts and social sciences, knowing that there are hundreds of people who read this thread whose backgrounds are precisely this. This "my science is better than Geoffrey Moore's science" is silly. Many people here have made a lot of money based on his book and the good timing of having bought QCOM a way back. Let's not let our newfound wealth lead us to closed-minded pomposity.

To: LindyBill who wrote (13717)	1/1/2000 10:40:00 AM
From: Jill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Lindy, Standing on the shoulders of giants, pygmies can sometimes see a few trees. <g> Synthetic thinking is a sign of high-order intelligence. Moore, in understanding and articulating the whole gorilla game that nobody even saw before, exhibits that. The work of Howard Gardner, at Harvard, has for decades shown there are multiple intelligences. One is not better than another, neither is one exclusive of another. (Goethe was both a great scientist and a great writer) In fact you might find it interesting that Gardner defines kinesthetic intelligence as a necessity in any good dancer. It is not necessary to get a degree in science in order to understand it. I have in my hands a soon-to-be-published paper by one of the greatest cosmologists of our time, Lee Smolin, about the origins of life. I've shown this paper to my ex husband who is a very good friend and a scientist as well as a doctor, and he says it is pure genius, that it ends up accounting for many things nobody has ever explained--such as why we're built out of left-handed amino acids. The catch: the paper was written with Lee Smolin's good friend, Saint Clair Cemin, a sculptor. As Lee said to me in an email last week, "He is the most interesting sculptor working in New York. He is an old friend, and when I described to him the idea I was thinking about, he saw the point immediately and had the key idea that made the paper possible." Jill