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To: Tommaso who wrote (89593)	2/17/2001 1:06:44 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

For minds, I'll stick with the Richard Feynmans of the world :)))) I don't know about those professional philosophers... once I was browsing thru a work where Karl Popper was philosophizing about quantum mechanics. Philosophizing about quantum mechanics! It's practically indecent!!! Maybe good for an intelligent conversation over glasses of fine bordeaux, or even pints of guiness (beats talking shop at any rate!), but I don't know about taking it seriously as the philosophers are wont to. It often seems to come down to banal truths couched in such language you can't figure what is really being said, a bit like a Greenspan allocution in fact.

To: Tommaso who wrote (89593)	2/17/2001 9:54:02 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

T, I think Ayn Rand had a great mind even if I disagree with most of the things she said. She definitely had a prickly personality, but I doubt that Spinoza would have tolerated much grilling on a talk show, either. Anyway, I had to come up with a woman thinker in the MM comparison. Dorothy Parker was my second choice. If you can watch "Some Like It Hot" and not get turned on by MM, you either need glasses or a shot of testosterone. I don't care what she was like in real life, as I never met the lady and probably much prefer the fantasy to the reality, which is almost always true. The mind is the most erotic part of the body human. <g>