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		<title>Guesswork: Enough is enough, but how much is enough?</title>
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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 him in a</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Am I missing the forest for trees?]]></category>
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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>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OK Corral: Words like arrows pointing the way to OK</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 19:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Can I change him?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Can I trust them?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Is there a win/win solution?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is this a sign?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Is this worth wondering about?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I expect less from them?]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=92</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an old debate in philosophy about what regular nouns represent. Proper nouns are easy by comparison, since they&#8217;re labels for particular things. Look for Jeremy Sherman in the real world and you can always point to me. But what about a regular noun like horse. Try to point to horse, and all you can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting Two and Two Together: Logic in one easy lesson</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2004 19:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[abduction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emergence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Logic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we connect two ideas why do we say put two and two together? Why not one and one? &#8216;Two and two&#8217; is not an accidental turn of phrase. It&#8217;s an accurate count: the smallest number of units involved in learning anything. Pavlov&#8217;s classical conditioning is learning at its most basic. Pavlov&#8217;s dog learned that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Logic of Affirmation: All of logic in one easy lesson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2004 21:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aristotle]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[feeling of being right]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I argued that our pursuit of love from the world is best understood as the pursuit of affirmation, not limited to self-affirmation, but broadened to include all evidence we can interpret as confirming the bets we live out. To get at what I mean I&#8217;m going to dip into what to me is [...]]]></description>
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