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to: Terry Vernon
from: Miles Maxted
date: 2004-12-21 06:22:02
subject: Re: a scientific answer

G'morning Terry, 

 MM>  PR> I think it was reported in an old April issue of Analog.
 MM> Analog, huh ?  I never really got into them,  an infrequent import
 MM> in the New Zealand of my youth - and never sighted in England.

 TV> Never sighted?
 TV> You're looking in all the wrong places, then.
 TV> I read it regularly in London.

Mmmm ... I was in Rugby, Warwickshire, and a keen member of the 
old library in the 30's & 40's.  Science fiction came in texts 
written by Verne and Wells, while CQ, Popular Mechanics and the 
Aeromodeller kept me busy practically...

My first reading of Analog would have been in the 50s or so, and 
by then I was hemmed in by study-reading in education and 
psychology...

I flirted in the 70's with a lot of Asimov - and latterly with 
Bryson, the E=MC^2 fellow and Michael King. 

Now ... I'm interested in cracking the consciousness puzzle and 
cursed by such wonders as Dennett's "Consciousness Explained" (the 
densest tome ever writ) and Crick's "Astonishing Hypothesis" and 
their bearing on the mystery of how people read  -  relieving the 
sheer pain with light stuff like Dan Brown's Langdon omnibus which 
whiled away a hailstorm on Sunday .... some interesting technology 
in there, too.

:-))

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