интересная статья, которую хотелось бы сохранить, о слове года, justice ( Read more... )

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"For nearly as long as we’ve attempted to create "thinking" computers, researchers have argued about the way they should run. Should they imitate how we imagine the mind to work, as a Cartesian wonderland of logic and abstract thought that could be coded into a programming language? Or should they instead imitate a drastically simplified version of ( Read more... )

"..Since all social behavior is the product of the brain, if we just understand how the brain works, he writes, "we can design a rational system of ethics having more predictable outcomes. ... Technical neuroscience can be applied to actual social problems that until now have seemed intractable." Domestic bliss, social harmony, and world peace are ( Read more... )

Rilke .. "saw in things magnetic poles around which "all movement subsides and becomes contour, and out of past and future time something permanent is formed ( Read more... )

как поразительна человеческая душа и человек вообще, взятый весь ( Read more... )

..it's hard to be truly original when there are no immediate precursors to spurn or deviate from. Without something to counter, the poet's "originality" is destined to resonate only within its creator. "The poem which is absolutely original is absolutely bad," Eliot pronounced, "it is, in the bad sense, 'subjective' with no relation to the world to ( Read more... )

The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep.
R. Frost
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

"..Bor describes consciousness as a wildly successful schema of pattern-seeking behavior...We excel in what's called the chunking process, where humans identify and store grouped information. Through chunking, we compress a great deal of redundant information, isolating what's essential to store in the limited space of our working memory. " ( Read more... )

Don Shalvey, deputy director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and co-founder of Aspire Public Schools, at the University of Southern California: Here are a few lessons I've learned since my graduation ( Read more... )