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...certainly afforded survival advantages to our ancestors when they decided which plants to pick or which caves to enter, but Knutson surmises that vestiges of this system are at work as we make more mundane choices at the mall. There, it's the match between the value of a product and its price that triggers an anticipation of pleasure or pain...
...then there is the theory put forward by philosopher Colin McGinn that our vertigo when pondering the Hard Problem is itself a quirk of our brains. The brain is a product of evolution, and just as animal brains have their limitations, we have ours. Our brains can't hold a hundred numbers in memory, can't visualize seven-dimensional space and perhaps can't intuitively grasp why neural information processing observed from the outside should give rise to subjective experience on the inside. This is where I place my bet, though I admit that the theory could be demolished when...
...believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty. Yet once we realize that our own consciousness is a product of our brains and that other people have brains like ours, a denial of other people's sentience becomes ludicrous. "Hath not a Jew eyes?" asked Shylock. Today the question is more pointed: Hath not a Jew--or an Arab, or an African, or a baby, or a dog--a cerebral...
...drive the economy, which grew 8.6% in 2004 and 7.3% in 2005. For 2006, the final figure is expected to be 6.5%. That success is partly due to the fact that Hong Kong is home to a cluster of firms such as Li & Fung, which help orchestrate the production and flow of goods supplied by factories in the developing world to multinational retailers. Hong Kong, says Dennis Cicetti, group managing director of product-sourcing firm William E. Connor & Associates, is "the command and control center" for much of world trade, particularly for thousands of factories in southern China that gush...
...moment, when the most intrepid designers give us parks that are plainly man-made arrangements. And in the same spirit these places make no pretense to timelessness, a tempting fantasy when we think about nature but a hopeless ambition in landscape design, which is always a product of its time. So the Weiss/Manfredi design for the Seattle park, with its pulsing tectonics and dynamic lines, is clearly a product of late 20th--early 21st century thinking, the era of Zaha Hadid and Daniel Libeskind and their thunderbolt architecture...