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Dec. 2nd, 2005 05:26 pm
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A paper on the cutaneous rabbit experiment (among other things) and the many-drafts theory of mind. :

http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/04/50/bbs00000450-00/bbs.dennett.html

Apparently there's an auditory analogue of the cutaneous rabbit experiment, involving placement of sounds in the stereo field.

From this page, todays winner of the "most gratuitous sarcastic comment in an otherwise serious webpage" award :

Allspice takes its name from its aroma, which smells like a combination of spices, especially cinnamon, cloves, ginger and nutmeg. In much of the world, allspice is called pimento because the Spanish mistook the fruit for black pepper, which the Spanish called pimienta. This is especially confusing since the Spanish had already called chillies pimientos. Lets also thank the Spanish for centuries of linguistic confusion created by naming all the natives they met ‘Indians’.

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