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Brain as a Modeling Tool

14-Jul-98

Several months ago, we had a very interesting guest speaker on the campus (the Microsoft campus, that is). It was none other than Douglas Adams, the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. He was actually there to talk about his upcoming (then) computer adventure game. Fortunately, I don’t remember anything about that. [...]

The Effect of the Limited Mental Capacity

08-Jul-98

I came to think that “the limited mental capacity” plays a very, if not the most, significant role in human, both as an individual and also as a society. We cannot retain all the experiences we ourselves go through in our life-span, let alone the collective knowledge across the time. We forget. Our mental capacity [...]