Wednesday, December 08, 2004

So Laura's writing a paper on orality and the how the written word has changed even how people think. Biggest example was the lack of logical inference in oral cultures. When told something like: "All bears in the north pole are white. Polar bears live in the north pole." They could not answer, "What color are polar bears?" They'd say something like the didn't know, they hadn't ever seen one. I know, quite hard to fathom. I'm interested in reading her paper. Anyhoo, she mentioned some people have a disease (odd to classify it as that, but anyway) which makes them see colors when they hear sounds. We often hear sounds when we see things, like musisians reading music, or hearing someone say something when we're reading a letter form them or whatnot. Anyway, I've been given the task of thinking of blue everytime I hear my name to see if this is a behavior which can be trained or not.

CS TA: Okay guys, listen up. We're just short of an even, so there will be one group of three of you.
Classmate: Just short of even? Don't you mean odd?
CS TA: Shut up!

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