How about a bit of Twi**er humor this morning to wake us up? And who better to tickle our funnybone than the inimitable Deepakity? Here Chopra tries to engage Lawrence Krauss, a move that, for a man of Chopra’s temperament and knowledge, is always a mistake.
The last tw**t is a zinger!
The deceptive, fraudulent, hoodwinking, unctuous, mendacious, fibber that is Deepak Chopra shows signs of psychological frailty and a desire to be taken seriously by engaging with real scientists/academics hoping that he will be regarded with similar esteem by simply have exchanges with such luminaries.
A gambit he might consider: be respectful. It’s crazy, I know! But it might work.
He might also consider, like, taking them seriously and learning from them, but that can’t happen: his quarks of baloney don’t vibrate in resonance with arglebargle sciencey something ppppbbblt.
Unfortunately his inflated ego and need to be vindicated as the promoter of a new epoch in thinking forces him to challenge the likes of Krauss. He really needs a big hug and some counselling, the quantum lummox.
What he needs is Valium. 20mg a day.
Intravenously?
It also would not keep him supplied with diamond studded glasses. Like every charlatan, it’s all about the money.
No doubt! Further down the thread I think I’m finally starting to wrap my head around it: his objective is plain, so if I don’t comprehend the tactics, it must be I’m not understanding his audience – its needs, worldview, secret handshakes – and see what they see. I know what he sees though: suckers.
My guess is that Chopra never took the oath to first, do no harm. Either that or the sentient molecules in his fingers were crossed at the time.
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Boom! Krauss cracks the logic whip!
It stings, that logic whip — like the snap of a wet towel on the bare Chopra ass. That’s what Deepak gets for instigating locker-room horseplay with his intellectual betters.
The thing is, this (getting made to look a fool) happens to Chopra every time he tries it – you’d think he’d learn.
Hahaha! Krauss totally “pwned” him, as the kiddies say.
That was my first thought, too!
“I don’t have enough faith in molecules to be the source of intelligence”
What does that even mean?
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I asked the Deepak quote generator, and all it said was:
“Right.” (as said by Philomela Cunk)
“What is it that you’re an expert in or of, Woo Man?”
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+1
Philomela Cunk vs. Deepak. My eyes water at the thought.
It’s a Deepakity; it doesn’t mean anything beyond “I am really, really smart.”
“I am really, really deep.”
“I am deeply deep.”
“I am profoundly deep, and science hasn’t caught up with me yet.”
“All you scientists, bring all your sciencey results to me and I shall interpret them profoundly deeply for all to Know The Truth, through me.”
Chopra’s much more derp than he is deep….
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Derpak.
Deeply dippy.
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Indeedy deed! He has Dipped Deeply. Into something.
This brings to mind the octopus leaping on the crab in the last post, and the Aussie accent yelling at the end, “Holy Sh*t!”
It means that he finally realizes that he is not a source of intelligence
Chopra’s a fool. Atoms don’t *have* consciousness, they *do* consciousness (in the right configurations anyway). Consciousness is a process, not a thing.
Why does Deepak even try</em to engage? Is he really thinking "Ha! This will really get them." Or, is he just preaching to the choir and, in his mind, illustrating the limitations of the "materialists"?
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This particular assault is such a non-sequitur, it certainly feels like that’s what he’s up to. The class clown, mocking the teacher to entertain the other morons.
He’ll either be a persecuted martyr of truth, or the lone genius overcoming the complacent establishment. How can he lose?
For the same reason Donald Trump and Sarah Palin pretend they’re running for president. All three of them are in the business of selling themselves. They don’t care if people talk shit about them, as long as they’re being talked about.
+100 rhinestone-encrusted eyeglass frames.
Because the fact that they’re rhinestones and not diamonds makes all the difference! 🙂
If Deepak is going to wear those Sir-Elton-style specs, the least he could do is sit down and play us some honky-tonk piano.
Deepak is hungry for attention.
I don’t have enough faith in Chopra to be a source of intelligence.
I don’t have any faith in Chopra to be a source of intelligence.
Or maybe I just need a skittle, microwaved with soy sauce to help the memory of my magneto-essences. (I wonder if that is random enough to be Chopra-thought?)
Owned! Al-Cap-Owned!
Also, when did L. Krauss get a beard? Or am I in a parallel universe?
I thought it was just me being behind the times again. Glad I’m not alone.
Well, since you are with me, then chances are you are definitely lost.
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That’s Krauss’ evil doppelganger.
Once again Deepity-Do imitates a toddler desperate to sit at the adults table. No offence to toddlers. 🙂
Okay, that’s just weird. Scientist shares a photo of himself posing with an esteemed friend and colleague, and Deepak chimes in with a Xtian apologetics deepity? And cc’s a bunch of other folks? How does harassment contribute to his brand?
It’s fun to write him off as needy, crazy, etc., but he’s making an awful lot of money so he must be doing something right. I sense that he is communicating to his minions in some kind of dogwhistle language that I’ll never understand.
I hope he keeps it up, though, if only to help Lawrence Krauss generate the nuggets of smack-down comedy gold.
Right – why did he feel the need to stick his oar in when Krauss’s tweet was utterly unrelated to the woo wars(or whatever you’d call Chopra’s ongoing campaign to alienate himself from the scientific community)? I don’t get it. Is he just sat there reading tweets in the hope someone mentions him? And even if they don’t he’ll get involved anyway? Am I missing some crucial tweet from Krauss where he mentions Chopra? It’s a little creepy.
Next thing Dawkins knows he’ll get a series of tweets from Chopra in the middle of the night – and they’ll be coming from the wardrobe by his bed.
. I don’t have enough faith in silk to wear those pajamas to bed
He is seeking authority by association.
Burn!
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Ha ha! Pow!
I still say Deepak Chopra, to use a euphemism that never ceases to amuse me, ain’t wrapped too tight.
He’s a couple sandwiches short of a picnic.
Kangaroos in the top paddock.
His dipstick’s not touching oil.
#1 rule: Deepcrap thoughts have consequences.
Deepcrap can permute the gentle idleness of a day’s pensive journey into an unwavering spectacle of holy shitness.
The only difference between a run of the mill instance of trolling and Chopra’s tweet is Chopra’s celebrity.
The better response might perhaps have been silence, still-birthing Chopra’s sleazy attempt at publicity while trying to gin up the illusion that he somehow belongs in the same company as Dawkins, Harris and Krauss.
It’s amazing that a mere 140 characters or less can provide such insight into one’s idiocy.
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So atoms are conscious, but the molecules comprising neurons can’t entail intelligence?
That’s all we need: Deepak slathering his bogus quantum-woo weirdness over particle physics. As if entanglement, non-locality, and the collapse (vel non) of the wave-function aren’t strange enough already…
LOL
I’m afraid he’s coming to my hometown this weekend (Guadalajara, Mexico). Seems to be sold out. 🙁
Anyone else notice that Chopra has this odd tendency, when he posts things critical of atheists, or materialism, to always add like 5-10 twitter tags at the end, of people like Dawkins, Harris, Coyne, etc.?
He is either incredibly thin skinned and lashing out, or still somehow thinks he really has these folks at an obvious intellectual loss. Or both.
Probably both.
And “molecules as the source of intelligence”? What? This guy still doesn’t understand that science is simply the best method of uncovering what the truth of things is – it doesn’t presuppose what the truth is, and work backwards, like him.
If science supported his absurd claims about consciousness and quantum mechanics, there would be plenty of evidence to back it up. And he’s welcome to give up selling cure-alls on his website, and giving expensive speeches, and re-dedicate his life to doing the hard, grueling scientific work of testing his various hypotheses about these matters.
He won’t, because waxing poetic about things he doesn’t understand sells to his fans, and makes him a lot of money. You don’t make millions of dollars toiling away in a lab.
I am not sure but I remember seeing in Youtube Chopra telling this to Dawkins(about atoms having consciousness). When Dawkins questioned, Chopra said he was quoting Freeman Dyson. Dawkins said Dyson would not say such things and Dyson may sue Chopra.
would love to see the trial!