>I believe it ought to be possible to reprogram ones brain to hold
>two contradictory beliefs without cognitive dissonace by mentally separating
>their domains of influence.
Well yeh, by only exercising one belief in one group of situations, and
flexing the other in another group of situations.
>Now, exactly what such a capability would be good for I'm not sure at the
>moment. But I bet in a week we could come up with all kind of things that
>mental-multitasking might be useful for.
Well, you could certainly use it to, in effect, erm... flex your... erm...
meme space. On, as it were, ... ... a fly? Oh, bollocks. :)
Dave Pape
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