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Originally Posted by dleviwing |
This is a problem with our educational system. Professors must "publish or perish", but no work is being done to integrate ideas into a cohesive whole. There is no "patent clerk" researching whether any idea is new or not. As a result, the same old truths are just rediscovered over and over. For example, William T. Powers came up with Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) in the 1970s. PCT is just warmed-over stuff that Walter Cannon said in the 1930s. Another example is Antonio Damasio's concept of "somatic marker" which was the same as Victor Johnston's "hedonic tone" and my "emotive trace" from the mid-1980s. At least I had the decency to give credit to Wilder Penfield, who did not name the phenomena, but discovered and proved its existence in the 1940s. Finally, Dominic Masaro's Fuzzy Logical Model of Perception is just a re-hash of Selfrige's Pandemonium Model from 1959.
Who knows, your "Absolute Motion" might have a predecessor in the ashes of the library of Alexandria.
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