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		<title>NPC&#8217;s: Non-player character, God and lifeline theology</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/npcs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The God many people imagine is omniscient. He knows everything. It&#8217;s handy to have a relationship with someone who knows everything. If you can contact him it&#8217;s like getting a lifeline on the game show &#8220;Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.&#8221; Whenever you&#8217;re unsure what to do in any particular situation you can ask God, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philosophizing: Hard because it&#8217;s easy</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/philosophizing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A man boasts about his successful marriage.
&#8220;What&#8217;s your secret?&#8221; a friend asks.
&#8220;Simple division of labor,&#8221; the husband says. &#8220;I make all the big decisions; my wife makes all the small ones.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t understand,&#8221; says his friend. &#8220;For instance?&#8221;
&#8220;For instance, my wife decides where I work, where we live, where the kids go to school. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fallibalism: Every belief is a bet but some bets are better than others</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/fallibalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I had a very interesting conversation with a truly engaged and engaging Christian. We were talking about the Bible. He&#8217;s a literalist. He believes that the Bible&#8217;s meaning is clear and certain, and that it&#8217;s only when other people engage in an act he calls &#8220;interpreting&#8221; that things get muddled. I asked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rung Running: Getting good at distinguishing &#8220;within&#8221; from &#8220;about&#8221; in everyday interaction</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/rung-running/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/rung-running/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/?p=976</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In thought and conversation we each take a variety of perspectives, many of which are nested or hierarchical. That is, when you make a statement, it is worth knowing what it represents. A part of you? You overall? Us? Your community? Your country? Everybody?
I&#8217;ve written a lot in these pages about how hierarchies of perspective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Means and Ends: Opening a can (and can&#8217;t) of worms.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/means-and-ends/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/means-and-ends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Q: Why do dogs lick their genitals?
A: Because they can.
As with all jokes, this one is a bait and switch. We were expecting a motive and got a de-constraint instead. The question led us to think about the dog&#8217;s ends (no pun intended), and instead we&#8217;re shunted to consideration of the dog&#8217;s means. Implicit in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meta-cons: Righteous indignation as a con about conning</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/meta-cons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/meta-cons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Add new tag]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[fights]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[guns germs steel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[jared diamond]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mendicants]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[tribal war]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago Jared Diamond, of Guns, Germs and Steel fame, had an article in the New Yorker describing tribal warfare in the New Guinea Highlands. Diamond takes us through a typical feud that started over accusations by one tribe that another tribe&#8217;s pig had messed up their garden. He follows Daniel, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SCIBIT: Building a scientifically coherent integrated bottom-up information theory</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/emergence/scibit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[emergence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[information]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[language]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[linguistics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[origins of language]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[origins of life]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[semiotics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As you know, when I&#8217;m not juicing the details of everyday interaction to extract the basic dance moves people make in dealing with tough judgment calls, I&#8217;m working with academic colleagues on putting together what I&#8217;ll call a SCIBIT-a Scientifically Coherent Integrated Bottom-up Information Theory.
Information theory is a theory about what information is and how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Wonderings of the Modern World: The human tough judgment calls</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/seven-wonderings-of-the-modern-world-the-human-tough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[emergence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Faith vs. reason]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[gratification]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[human nature]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[long-term]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[myopium]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Paradoxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been doing Mind Readers Dictionary steadily for close to five years&#8211;one article, one idea per week. Only now am I getting around the stuff that started it all for me, the universal tough judgment calls at the heart of all the uncertainty we feel in any and every area of life.
Last week I listed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Wonderings of the Ancient World: Life&#8217;s universal tough judgment calls</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/seven-wonderings-of-the-ancient-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/seven-wonderings-of-the-ancient-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[alpha errors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ancient world]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[beta errors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[croakers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[doubting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[facultative sexuality]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[false negatives]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[false positives]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[frogs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[indecision]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[questions evolution answers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[slime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If everybody minded their own business,&#8221; the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, &#8220;the world would go round a deal faster than it does.&#8221;
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland*
Minding one&#8217;s own business commonly means not minding other people&#8217;s business, but its literal meaning is still implied&#8211;don&#8217;t mind others&#8217; business because you have business of your own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Granularity: Think as big as possible but no bigger</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/granularity-think-as-big-as-possible-but-no-bigger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/granularity-think-as-big-as-possible-but-no-bigger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 21:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Einstein]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[mission]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[scale]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[scope]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Serenity prayer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[size]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[tactics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[tasks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[zoom]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[zoom lens]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/?p=968</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve argued before that there are three types of guidance or wisdom. The first and simplest is the &#8220;always do X&#8221; type. For example, always think positive thoughts, always follow your father&#8217;s advice, or always do what the Bible says.
The second is the &#8220;a time for X; a time for Y&#8221; type, the wise recognition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACIDs (Ambiguous Cues; Incompatible Dos): What eats at us when something does</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/acids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/acids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 22:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I argued that we need names for the generic tough judgment calls we all deal with. I gave a few examples:
Should I be receptive or assertive?
Should I manipulate or be honest?
I argued that we pretend we can live by one-sided principles - assert your rights, accept things as they are, be persuasive, always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Generic Tough Judgment Calls:  Why don&#8217;t we have names for them?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/generic-tough-judgment-calls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/generic-tough-judgment-calls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 14:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/?p=966</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I was listening to an NPR report on Jimmy Carter&#8217;s meeting with leaders of the Palestinian militant Hamas party. The reporter had two experts on to debate the merits of Carter&#8217;s action. One argued that Carter sent the wrong message. Diplomatic engagement only encourages Hamas leaders to stand irrationally firm. The other said Carter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conventional wisdom: In times like these we need more of what specifically?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/conventional-wisdom-in-times-like-these-we-need-more-of-what-specifically/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/conventional-wisdom-in-times-like-these-we-need-more-of-what-specifically/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 15:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/?p=965</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t choose to do all this philosophizing the way one chooses a career. I got into it by necessity. What I had to go on before was inadequate. I had hit a midlife crisis armed with state-of-the-art wisdom from self-help and Buddhism . . . and it just wasn&#8217;t up to the task.
That wisdom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exaptation: The loose link between representation and function</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/exaptation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/exaptation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/?p=964</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a musician. I&#8217;ll admit that when I was a teen, I got into it as a way to improve my status with women. I don&#8217;t know that it ever helped much; I&#8217;m no superstar. Still, I&#8217;ve stayed a musician. Music has stayed functional in my life. But now, music represents something other than status [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Floating for-ness: Under a firm mantle of function, molten motives churn.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/floating-for-ness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/floating-for-ness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re in love, or so you think. You certainly feel in love, but now that you&#8217;ve been run through the mill a few times, you wonder what the feeling really means.
You love being loved. But think about it, why does this person love you? What&#8217;s the motivation? When someone says, &#8220;I love you,&#8221; what does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zipslide Errors: Confusing the nature of past and future</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/zipslide-errors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Loosely speaking, time is like zipping up a very long zipper. The future is open; the past is closed. The present is like the zipslide closing up possibilities. While we may not be able to determine what happened in the past, the past is nonetheless determined. The future is not. It&#8217;s unknowably open. There is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brain Velcro: Why good things happen to bad ideas</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/brain-velcro-why-good-things-happen-to-bad-ideas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/brain-velcro-why-good-things-happen-to-bad-ideas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people even mildly interested in evolution have heard about the &#8220;selfish gene.&#8221; The concept is simple yet with counterintuitive implications. Richard Dawkins, who coined the term, argues that the best way to understand evolution is to imagine that genes selfishly want to preserve themselves, and so produce elaborate replicator vehicles (us) designed to help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-efficacy: How supply permits demand</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/self-efficacy-how-supply-permits-demand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Give the work to the busy man,&#8221; my mother used to say. It made sense. A busy man (or woman, in her case) had momentum and a can-do spirit.
The technical name for a can-do spirit is self-efficacy, a belief that you are capable of being effective. Psychologist Albert Bandura, who coined the term, attributes this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prevenge: &#8220;I&#8217;m like rubber; you&#8217;re like screwed.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/prevenge-im-like-rubber-youre-like-screwed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/prevenge-im-like-rubber-youre-like-screwed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Have you ever blackmailed someone? I attempted to blackmail a policeman the other evening. I was driving somewhere in my usual hurry. After I rolled through a stop sign, he trailed me and gave me a ticket.
I acted put out, sullen, unfriendly. He remained cheerful. After he gave me the ticket, he said, &#8220;Drive safely!&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Butterfly punch: Shaming your opponent into putting on kid gloves before you knock him out.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Think back to a time when you fought really hard for something. Back then, how sure were you that you were right? How sure are you now that you were?If you&#8217;re like me, you pick your battles, and sometimes you pick wrong. You also intuitively track how often you changed your mind later about your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turing&#8217;s Blurring Anxiety (TBA): Forgiving dead jerks but not live ones.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/turings-blurring-anxiety/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you say about a deceased jerk, someone who treated you badly before shuffling off this mortal coil?The natural temptation is to say, &#8220;She could have done better,&#8221; but what could that mean? That had she tried a little harder, she would have been able to control her vices? Meaning if she had been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guesswork: Enough is enough, but how much is enough?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/guesswork-enough-is-enough-but-how-much-is-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Three weeks ago I recounted a lot of tough problems raised over the ages about how cause and effect really work. One of the toughest was that if cause and effect works like we normally think it does-thing A bumps into thing B and moves it in a precisely predictable direction, then the whole universe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deduction: The dream and nightmare of absolute certainty</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/deduction-the-dream-and-nightmare-of-absolute-certainty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I began comparing and contrasting computers and minds, examining both human intuitions and appetites regarding the prospect that our minds are governed by the same kind of direct one-to-one-correspondence kind of cause-and-effect we see in the physical world (Aristotle&#8217;s efficient cause). If minds are really like computers, just translating information from one form [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Free Willies: Are computers like humans? Are humans like computers?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/the-free-willies-are-computers-like-humans-are-humans-like-computers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The World Wide Web, it&#8217;s like a giant human mind the way it processes billions of pieces of information. Someday it will become so smart it takes over the world. It will be able to think instead of us. Or so some cognitive scientists say.
Your new computer too, it thinks so fast. The better computers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cause and Effect: Not black and white, but read all over as if it were</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/cause-and-effect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Cause and effect&#8211;we all believe in it and think we know how it works, but when we stop to think about it, some inconsistencies suggest there&#8217;s a lot more to it. And yet who studies the actual workings of cause and effect? Researchers in the philosophy of science&#8211;not a specialization you&#8217;ve probably heard or thought [...]]]></description>
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