Bias, however, is not racism. Racism is a particular subset of bias. Kapur was talking about bias. Arrington made it about racism. And while I'm tired of this whole tawdry affair, it does seem as if CNN is attempting to shine a light on the bias - deliberate or inadvertent - within the tech industry.

My read of Kapor's statement, and my read of Soledad O'Brien's statement, is that they are attempting to point out that there is bias within the tech world aside from racism. My read of Arrington's statements are that he's basically saying "you tricked me into looking like a racist and boy howdy am I pissed off about it."

Meanwhile, you seem to be saying that there are philosophical dangers inherent in implying that the brain is an organ as well as the seat of consciousness, and you seem to be pretty exercised about it. I'll reiterate - I've read a number of fairly compelling books that support the hypothesis that the consciousness and the unconsciousness are often at loggerheads and that much of the nuance and surprise in behavioral science is due to this dichotomy. However, I have no skin in the game.

I just think you're tilting at windmills. A "psychological study with their subjects hooked up to an EEG or an fMRI" is still leagues ahead of the musings of a philosopher.

Weren't you one of the people giving me shit for defending Freud?