atw: Re: Great Mate vs Gr8 M8

Brian - yes, I really should spend far more of my day edit checking my email
messages, so as not to offend anyone's sensibilities, because, you know, I
have nothing else to do with my time.
On 4/15/08, Brian A Clarke <brianclarke01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Caz,
>
> You remonstrated:
> >
> > Try living without your thumbs, then get back to us about how "limited"
> is
> > its use.
>
> Apart from 'thumbs' being plural and your verb and pronoun singular,
> I think we need to be careful in translating from one domain to another.
>
> The word 'limited' is one of those words that has a specific meaning in
> biology that is rather different from the usual 'street' sense.
>
> Whenever something is 'specialised' in biological terms, it is 'limited'
> in
> its application to the range of tasks we need to perform to survive. For
> instance, the human brain as a whole is relatively unspecialised, but
> parts of it are highly specialised, ie, limited; eg, the visual cortex
> cannot
> handle information from the cochlear nerve bundle; try walking on your
> hands all day; try tearing meat with your ears. These are all examples of
> what biologists mean by 'limited'.
>
> Brian.
>
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