Janne Morén, a robotics and artificial intelligences expert, examines the thought machine that is the Liberal Democratic Party (sadly, for several of its members, the only thought machine they have) and discovers it exhibiting telltale symptoms of neurological disfunction in a particular region inside the noggin.
Herr Morén, you have the floor...
Just noting, in case it's not obvious from the post itself, that the idea should be taken with all the gravity and seriousness any random blog post on the net deserves.
ReplyDeleteI was mostly amused by the surface similarity of behaviour between LDP on one hand, and prefrontal patients being tested on the WCST on the other. So I took it up as a rhetorical crutch to consider the idea of an ossified, self-reinforced decision-making process as a partial explanation of the sometimes exceedingly strange behaviour of the party.
Herr Morén -
ReplyDeleteYou have the correct attitude toward the absolute applicability of a metaphor.
By contrast, these guys
http://www.nationalinterest.org/PrinterFriendly.aspx?id=17008
want to be taken seriously.
Consider yourself sane.
Now that is a metaphor taken way, way too far.
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