Word: outthought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Outthought & Outmaneuvered...
...establishing civilian control of the Pentagon as a fact of life as well as a theory, McNamara perhaps went too far in alienating service officers. He not only outthought and outmaneuvered such potentates as General Curtis LeMay, but he sometimes humiliated them as well. Within the Pentagon his information policies throttled internal dissent. Even Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover, himself a rebel against traditional military procedure, protested: "Independence of expression has now become almost unthinkable...
...according to Williams, solving the problem of copying the brain is neither necessary nor desirable, since nature did not design it for intelligence. "The brain of man, like that of other vertebrates, is an item of random design to meet one basic purpose: survival. The fact that it has outthought things like saber-toothed tigers is no evidence that it is particularly apt for abstract thinking...