From: kym@kymhorsell.com   
      
   Norm Why  wrote:   
   > Exposed: Greta's school strike sham, from Al Gore to her bodyguards | Keean   
   > Bexte   
      
   Still a kooky white supremacist.   
      
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   Morton's Demon:   
   Glenn Morton expanded the idea of Maxwell's Demon to explain the   
   resilience of nonsensical or wrong beliefs. He was particularly   
   concerned about young Earth creationists but his demon applies to a   
   much wider class of people.   
   His demon sits at the front of the mind and filters incoming ideas,   
   only letting in those with which the person agrees and blocking the   
   rest. This is much more powerful than any system where the ideas are   
   tested for compliance by the mind and then rejected - they don't even   
   get considered in the first place. I have seen people repeat the same   
   faulty arguments within minutes of being informed, with evidence, that   
   they are wrong. And I do mean minutes. As these people appear to   
   otherwise be functioning human beings who can even tie their own   
   shoelaces it seems reasonable to infer that the counterarguments are   
   not even being perceived, let alone being evaluated and rejected.   
   -- "The Naked Skeptic", Australasian Science, May 2011.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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