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Not a week passes that someone attempts to sway me to their cause with “logic.”  “Just look at the facts,” their argument begins.  Later comes the ol’ fall-back, “it’s common sense”–an ill-defined concept we all “know when we see”–like invoking “common” or “natural” law when the codified system isn’t working.
Leaving aside the braying nabobs that [...]

People with damage to the prefrontal cortex cannot understand sarcasm.

Aha!  50% of the people I’ve ever talked to have brain damage!  They’re “humor-blind”!
Evidence seems overwhelming that there are different basic brain types.  Many of us live in a world of black and white and two dimensions.  Others see multiple dimensions, multiple shades of gray.  These [...]