Wednesday, March 12, 2008
brains don't think, people do
I was thinking about the rationale behind the expression "Guns don't kill people, people do." I guess without a person to pull the trigger, a gun is reduced from a threatening object to an arbitrarily-formed mass of steel. As I look at the faces of my students, I can't help but apply the same logic to the intellect. If a brain is not used, can it any longer be considered a brain?
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i believe it'd still be a brain, just as a gun would still be a gun if not used. they're just both not being used to their fullest potential.
secondly...i was gonna stop by cca on my spring break...is there a good day or time to do that where you'd have a min?
when is your break? I will be out after tuesday next week, and all of the following week.
i'm coming home the 18-20 so if you'll be around later on tuesday I could probably do that
Being that the word gun is assigned to the object based upon an action that it performs, if it no longer performs the action then a new word would be used. Words don't have meaning until we make them have meaning? I guess that would mean all objects dont have an assigned name until we enact our presence upon them to give them purpose and meaning, at any other time they would just be objects.
Im not really sure that makes sense but its fun to think of objects having existences which are activated by humans.
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