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...them. I asked myself: why don’t those same connections form with characters in video games?” In the same vein, the group is bent on increasing flexibility in video games. Games like the Mario Brothers series, in which the character follows a single linear path, give the player few options. The Legend of Zelda, however, allows the player to go wherever he or she wants in the game, and even have adventures that are unrelated to the final goal. These games are much more lifelike, since they allow the player to transpose...
...nature, however, to seek simple, linear, cause-and-effect stories and not think in terms of circular causation, in which effects become their own causes. Perhaps the idea of nature via nurture, like the ideas of quantum mechanics and relativity, is just too counterintuitive for human minds. The urge to see ourselves in terms of nature versus nurture, like our instinctual ability to fear snakes, may be encoded in our genes...
...brought little joy into the world, I am left with only bile. I hate having to smash my big Idea to pieces and then classify and reassemble the parts, to turn each thought into a topic sentence or its subsidiary, and to organize them in an arbitrary linear structure which undercuts the extent of their coherence. What perverse monsters we are to do this for a grade. It’s bad enough that we distort the world with notions of cause and effect, presence and absence, positive and negative, either and or—conventions of thought which become...
...relationship between consuming peanut butter, peanuts and other nuts and protection against Type II Diabetes is linear, according to the study. The more the subjects ate, the greater the protective effect the peanuts...
...absence of available seats, late class shoppers overwhelmed Science Center 309 last Wednesday as they filled every unoccupied corner of the room. Students sat on the floor directly in front of the lecturer and on top of the radiator to hear the first lecture of Math 23a: Theoretical Linear Algebra and Multivariable Calculus...