All: The subject is the title of an article appearing in the NYTimes on 3/31/09. Among many interesting statements in the article is the following:
"We use emotions, the brain´s steersman, to assign value to our experiences and to future possibilities, often allowing us to evaluate potential outcomes efficiently and rapidly when information is uncertain. In general, we bring an extraordinary amount of background information to bear on seemingly simple tasks, allowing us to make inferences that are difficult for machines." Assigning values to experience? Sounds familiar doesn't it? I wonder if the authors have an inkling of the Pirsigian revolution. Probably not because they assume a subject (assigning values) to an object (experience) rather than seeing experience/values as two sides of the same coin. Nevertheless, you may find the article interesting. It's at: http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/guest-column-computers-vs- brains/?scp=1&sq=Sandra%20Aamodt&st=cse Platt Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
