I'm currently enjoying The Little Schemer as a way to attempt to learn more of the Lisp/Scheme programming paradigm. It's been a useful book for me so far, in that I'm 30 pages in and haven't yet had to stop and go, "Wait, WTF?!"*

( Cut for rambling )

Semi-random thoughts on our political process. Many of our politicians seem to like trying to convince people of a certain thing (often that something-or-other unpleasant was because of someone other than them ( Read more... )

Honestly, I'm not really sure. The way that information is stored in the brain, especially when it comes to something as complicated as beliefs, is a mystery to me--and that's assuming that it's actually stored in the brain to begin with.

I guess you have to be exposed to information that--to you--seems superior to and/or compatible ( with the information that you already have )