Yep, that about sums it up

This one's been floating around the intertubes, at least those parts of the intertubes I frequent, for several days now at least. But it's so good that I just can't resist posting it myself.

I had no idea John Cleese had a video podcast...

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just after the gene for squandering work time reading blogs...................

"Right next to the gene that makes you go to see Nicholas Cage movies - so that's another mystery explained."

That made it worthwhile.

Right next to the gene that makes you remember a multitude of Monty Python sketches like the scene in "The meaning of Life" where the administrator Michael Palin walks into the birthing room and says; ahhh, I see you are using the machine the goes PING!

By Uncle Dave (not verified) on 18 Sep 2008 #permalink

Around 1992, a woman in my lab and I were kidding each other and she told me I was being illogical; I replied that she cannot know about logic since the gene for it is located on the Y chromosome. Without missing a beat she retorted (yeah, it's right next to the Jerk gene!"

A couple years later Nature (in jest) asked readers to submit locations of genes on the Y-chromosome. They then published a map identifying genes such as the shopping-suppressor. Of course, that led to hate mail.

I know it was tongue-in-cheek, but it really does bother me that Cleese's character confuses causal determinism with genetic determinism. It also bothers me that he asserts that QM has done away with causal determinism.

It was still cute, though, and as a Python fan, I can forgive these annoyances.