The Captain Kirk Principle

Scientific American ^ | December 2002 | Michael Shermer

[AndrewC]

No one else has posted this that I can tell. My previous assessment of Mr. Shermer's ability to discern value must now be reappraised.

I also add, "Design, I know it when I see it."

[Southack]

It's in the math!

[tet68]

Um, they've known this in the advertising business for HOW long?

[AndrewC]

Intuitive ping. To jennyp: I pinged you because Shermer was the author and I have berated him due to Hardison.

[AndrewC]

You beat the invitation! You are now "formally" invited. ;^)

Don't you usually have a nice bovine logo?

[PJ-Comix]

I would like the Scientific American to analyze the Star Trek episode where Spock has to have sex once every 7 years or he goes crazy.

[AndrewC]

Um, they've known this in the advertising business for HOW long?

It isn't "real" to many people until you can measure it and it is published a some orthodox scientific publication.

[Billy_bob_bob]

The Captain Kirk principle. Would that be "Loudly claim how very important the Prime Directive is, while violating it IN EVERY SINGLE EPISODE?"
Is THAT the Captain Kirk principle they speak of?

[AndrewC]

Intuition says a=in

[AndrewC]

Is THAT the Captain Kirk principle they speak of?

Are you asking my rational or intuitive mind? If it is the rational side -- I hesitate to answer but no. If it is the intuitive side -- I definitely feel that it is not.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I thought the Kirk principle was "If you can't have sex with it, blow the crap out of it!"

[Robert_Paulson2]

I would prefer every seven hours...
Spock was a loser.

[ovrtaxt]

I thought the Kirk Principle was, "Send in an expendable crew member first!"

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Actually,the Captain Kirk principle is to always send out the red shirted guys first, and to feel bad when good ol' Ensign Whozits buys the farm.

[copycat]

I always like to compare the clinton administration to the "Kobiayashi Maru" test. clinton hates to lose.

If you can't make the numbers what you want, change how you count the numbers.

[Blood of Tyrants]

No, that is a Star Fleet standing order. It must be since the expendable crewman is ALWAYS the one to die.

[Willie Green]

I would like the Scientific American to analyze the Star Trek episode where Spock has to have sex once every 7 years or he goes crazy.

Scientific American has been corrupted by liberals.
They'd probably try to link it to trouble with tribbles, thus proving that Spock was a poofter.

I don't think I could stomach that revelation.

[Robert_Paulson2]

intuition is baloney...
intuition is a biggie with feministas.
hyperemotive driven behaviors... are endocrine system driven.

"first impressions" that they use to try and nail down similarities between a teacher in 30 second review vs.in class, flow from INTELLECT based on past, factual experience. That's not "intuition" its template application based on an internal database of factual experiences, properly perceived.

ALL that is "good" about what they are calling "intuition" here, is acgally internal "ods making" Las Vegas style, based on experiences as we have perceived them. And that is why raw "intuitions" cannot EVER be trusted without intellectual cognition.

IE. If you see a girl that looks like your first lover, ods are you would find her attractive even if you did not know she was an epileptic (if that former lover had worked out for you on some level), or you might find a really wonderful person, repulsive (if the girls she reminded you gave you syph, or left you for your best friend, or your sister...).

The problem is, you may find another person repulsive at first, but later find that "john" was nothing like your psycho 11th grade football coach in high school. Hence, "don't judge a book by its cover."

Intuition can often become more useful as "experiences" form a database and templates for future growth and interaction. OR, it can become debilitating as one becomes hormonally addicted to the emotive aspects that are not productive.

I trust my parents "intuition" better known as "ods making skills", based on decades of personal experience than I do my adult children's. Mom and Dad have a much larger database of events and persons to consider and form their "impressions."

Perception based on experience is being blurred here with "intuition" which is usually a code word for liberal-feminists whose default setting is the hyper-emotive-state d'jour for ill advised decisions NOT based on intellect. Wise women know these for what they are more commonly recognised as: "irrational" choices and behaviors.

I don't think much of intution as a basis for anything, especially for the young..

[OKSooner]

I recall some comedian discussing that very phenomenon, in the context of how Spock's ears got that way...

[F16Fighter]

I know how exactly how the alternative Kirk feels -- everytime I get out on the road then get cutoff by one more %&*#! pinhead!