Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Week 12
This week’s episode of Ver Trig’s radio experiment, as broadcast between 12 and 1pm earlier today on London’s 104.4FM. Featuring, amidst all the usual mucking about: a brief history of hoaxes, the inflexibility of identity on web2.0, the mind’s propensity for gap filling and a lot of talking from mouths full of man crisp.
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FT's pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør on March 25th, 2007
till now i had never noticed our beloved Admin’s translatlantic accent!
(i really enjoyed this ep, tho i wanted to know more about the rabbit lady)
Alix on March 25th, 2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Toft
Mark M on March 25th, 2007
The woman referred to who popularized southern European cooking in Britain in the 50s was Elizabeth David, I believe.
FT's mitya on March 26th, 2007
For some reason, all the crisps talk had me in stitches this morning.
pete on March 26th, 2007
FT's CarsmileSteve on March 26th, 2007
jay-sus the edge…
i send a txt about e david during the show, but not picked up on ;)
FT's Alan on March 26th, 2007
I nearly hazarded a guess of Elizabeth Duke. ho ho.
FT's Martin Skidmore on March 26th, 2007
I made an oblique reference to those syndromes where sufferers make up explanations of things in this old piece on FT: http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/science/2004/09/brain-damage/.
FT's Alan on March 26th, 2007
If I had one more point to make about that subject I was going to mention that confabulation happens in perfectly normal people too - not just the brain damaged - as shown in experiments with Choice Blindness and other examples.
FT's pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør on March 26th, 2007
yes as you were describing korsakov’s syndrome [sp.?] i wz thinking hmmm but surely we ALL do this –the diff is that the korsakov ppl are WILDLY CREATIVE in the implausibility of their fill-in backstory invention
FT's Alan on March 26th, 2007
Because the confabulation is more pronounced in these pathological cases it’s easier to spot. That it comes up again and again in varying and otherwise unrelated pathologies strongly suggests that confabulation is a deep ‘module’ of the brain and that what happens when the nonsense breaks out is that higher up ‘editorial filter’s are damaged and no longer give feedback along the lines of ‘eh, no that’s inappropriate/makes no sense/etc, try again’.