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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 World and the Values

08-Jul-98

To me, “The World” seems to consist of the continuity of two “concepts:” those of “value” and of “no value”. As a thinking entity, evaluating “values” on what we observe and experience is one of our many essential traits. And as a thinking individual who has different experience, we have different evaluation procedures and standards. [...]