Gell mann amnesia
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Though, I think it requires an extension which might discomfort the very same “experts” who would be the type to have such a amnesiac experience.Ĭonsider an academic who works in the experimental sciences, particularly the kind of trials which occur in medicine. My discovery of the above described phenomena of “Gell-Mann Amnesia” has been a bright spot on my intellectual journey these last two or so years. You turn the page, and forget what you know.” In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect.
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You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect will have kicked in by then.“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. Will I remember that exasperation the next time I read a BFI booklet? Probably not. It may seem a trivial point, but if a critic is elucidating a version of England and Englishness, it behoves him to nail the place - and, as importantly, the spirit of the place. If the bloke couldn’t get a simple geographic detail right then I wasn’t interested in his opinions on what Penda’s Fen was all about.
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In fact, the setting is Worcestershire, which is in the West Midlands. But in the first part of the elucidatory essay, written, I can only assume, by a credentialed intellectual, the play’s setting was given as the West Country. There’s always a sense of emotional and intellectual insecurity when a work of art that’s been praised to the skies fails to move or engage you. I was hoping to understand just why Penda’s Fen is so highly regarded and what it was I was missing. After I’d watched the film, I started reading the DVD’s accompanying booklet. I have to say, I found it a disappointment - didactic, disjointed, and replete with the stiffest of acting.Īnyway, the link to the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is this. As an aside, if you haven’t heard of it, it’s something of a cult film among the folk-horror/English-eerie crowd.
#GELL MANN AMNESIA TV#
I bought the BFI DVD of David Rudkin’s 1974 TV play Penda’s Fen not long ago. Clearly, if he’d even bothered to read Camus - itself a moot point - he hadn’t understood him.īut it’s not just the newspapers. I still roll my eyes when I recall the prominent Times journalist referring, in one of his columns, to Albert Camus as ‘the nihilist philosopher’. I know those feelings of exasperation and amusement well. You turn the page, and forget what you know. (I refer to it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.)īriefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved.
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In a speech given in 2002, Michael Crichton, of Jurassic Park fame, coined the term, ‘Gell-Mann Amnesia effect’.