{"id":1529,"date":"2011-07-07T14:54:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T13:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2011-07-07T14:57:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T13:57:23","slug":"theyre-made-out-of-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2011\/07\/07\/theyre-made-out-of-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re Made out of Meat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re Made Out of Meat&#8221; is a short story by Terry Bisson. It&#8217;s a great rift of the improbability of the human situation, and particularly relevant to psychologists (e.g. &#8220;So &#8230; what does the thinking?&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>The full text is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrybisson.com\/page6\/page6.html\">here<\/a>. The story has its own <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/They%27re_Made_Out_of_Meat\">wikipedia page<\/a>, and there&#8217;s a YouTube film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gaFZTAOb7IE\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, for your listening delight Erin Revell and Geraint Edwards, at my request, have recorded the story so I can play parts of it during a lecture. The result was too good not to share, so with Terry Bisson&#8217;s permission, here&#8217;s a link for the whole thing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/docs\/MadeOfMeat.mp3\">Terry Bisson&#8217;s &#8220;They&#8217;re Made Out of Meat&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Cross-posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/mindhacks.com\/2011\/07\/07\/theyre-made-out-of-meat\/\">mindhacks.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re Made Out of Meat&#8221; is a short story by Terry Bisson. It&#8217;s a great rift of the improbability of the human situation, and particularly relevant to psychologists (e.g. &#8220;So &#8230; what does the thinking?&#8221;) The full text is here. The story has its own wikipedia page, and there&#8217;s a YouTube film here. Now, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people-i-know","category-psychology","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-oF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1533,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}