Word: lettvin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life and a sacrament," said Leary, "and a sacrament is something that gets you high." He then downed the water, and launched into a debate with Jerome Y. Lettvin, professor of Biology and Electrical Engineering at M.I.T. on the merits and evils...
...Lettvin put on a show of his own without slides. He asked himself whether he would trade places with Leary, who claimed he was ecstatic. "Why don't I? Is it love of the real world? Is it that my own ego would be destroyed?" Lettvin said he objected to LSD on moral grounds, since certain drugs cause permanent suspension of judgment. To opt for saying "so what?" he argued, was an unbearable decision...
...three per cent of the cases he had seen, Lettvin said, taking drugs had brought on a form of epilepsy, similar to the type which affilicted Charles Whitman, the Texas sniper. "Real Dostoyevsky if you want to see what it is like," he recommended...