For reading between the lines with greater comprehension
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 […]
The World Wide Web, it’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 […]
Many people wrote to say how much they liked last week’s article on romanticynicism—the joining of romanticism and cynicism—but the article left me wondering what I really meant by it. I said I’d prescribe romanticynicism to anyone, but the more I think about it the more it seems that romanticynicism is a question, not an […]
Some people don’t feel safe in love unless it’s complete, absolute, and unconditional. Others (me, for one) only feel safe in love when it isn’t. I feel safest when I, and those who love with me, know that love can never be complete, absolute, and unconditional, that unconditional love is only unconditional under certain conditions. […]
One of my favorite decision theory jokes goes like this: A man is boasting about his successful marriage. A friend asks him what’s the secret. “It’s a simple division of labor,” the happy husband says. “She makes all the little decisions and I make all the big ones.” “For example?” the friend asks. “She decides […]
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