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...more interesting than possible events involving novel objects. In other words, when Daniel has seen the red train come out of the tunnel green a few times, he gets as bored as when it stays the same color. The mistake of previous research, says Sirois, has been to leap to the conclusion that infants can understand the concept of an impossibility from the mere fact that they are able to perceive some novelty in it. "The real explanation is boring," he says...
...kind of "meat chauvinism" that would dogmatically deny consciousness to Lieut. Commander Data just because he doesn't have the soft tissue of a human brain. Identifying it with information processing would go too far in the other direction and grant a simple consciousness to thermostats and calculators--a leap that most people find hard to stomach. Some mavericks, like the mathematician Roger Penrose, suggest the answer might someday be found in quantum mechanics. But to my ear, this amounts to the feeling that quantum mechanics sure is weird, and consciousness sure is weird, so maybe quantum mechanics can explain...
...reserve book 47 years from today? $4,944.12: Pretty steep price for that two-page response paper, eh? THE MATH: 2 cents per minute x 60 minutes/hour x 24 hours/day x 365 days/per nonleap year=105.12 2 cents per minute x 60 minutes/hour x 24 hours/day x 365 days/per leap year=105.14 105.41 x 12 leap years=1264.92 105.12 x 35 non-leap years=3679.20 $4,944.12 for the next 47 years...
...Livni discussed their new approach in Washington in early December, and since then they have had frequent phone conversations. Their strategy is to put aside the step-by-step road map, which requires that the Palestinians dismantle their terrorist infrastructure before any new phase of negotiations begins, and instead leap right to final-status talks with moderate Palestinians about what a two-state solution would look like. If a suitable framework for a Palestinian state is reached, Abbas would then go to his people with a referendum: Do you want it or not? He is convinced that more than...
...year-old. Apart from an impressive baseline game, Tomic, now 14, plays with the kind of palpable intensity that these days is a prerequisite for getting anywhere in tennis, and he looks destined to be a tall boy, perhaps 190-cm by the time he stops growing. The leap from juniors to the Tour is huge and the tennis canyon is full of former prodigies who didn't make it. But Tomic is the best Australian prospect since Hewitt...