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using psychological methods on a "cerebro-neural" condition. Naturally, since there only "appears" to be a relation and really isn't they are fore- doomed to failure. Shades of predeterminism!

If this logic should expand I am afraid that a lot of areas that we usually think we have some choice in or which are capable of being directed one way or another, are going to become "cerebral- neural" and we might just as well quit.. I've always thought of the brain as being like a computer, but I like to think that the programming (except for in- stincts) was done after it was built (born) and not that it was all "built in" beforehand. I can only hope that with this degree of foreordination that "somebody upstairs loves me!" I agree with Popeye, "I yam what I yam and that's all I yam." But some- where deep inside comes a small voice that says, "don't quit, don't believe all this, the potentials for many things are in you at birth but the events and circumstances of your life will determine which of the many will be activated and thus make up the person you become".

EPILOGUE: In spite of the differences of opinion and my permissible use of the debate techniques of disproof, sarcasm, humor, ridicule, etc. I still love Sheila and this is just good intellectual sparring. Having I hope, disposed of most of her "Nature" arguments I will say a word for Nurture, though most of my ideas on the subject have been said in other issues. But after I do that I think I shall construct a much better case for "Nature" than Sheila has, but one which can be integrated with "Nurture". If Sheila wishes a reply to either my rebuttal or her present position or to what I am about to present she is welcome to these pages to do it. The same invitation is extended to any other reader. A little good natured disputation will be good for the magazine and.for all of its readers.

.....Virginia

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