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I, Me and Myself

Monday, July 30th, 2007
I:
I am so angry! I hate to be angry! How could she say that? After all these years!
Me:
Stop it. She didn’t mean it, you know.
I:
I hate it when she talks to me like that!
Me:
You started yelling first, you know.
I:
What she said was stupid! Stupid! Stupidity makes me mad!
Me:
Listen you smarty, if you are so smart you should notice that it was her second day. She is always unbearable those days.
Myself:
Interesting, if the milk was not white, what color would it be?

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God Who Does Nothing

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
Jay Ingram:
Here is this young man Alan Turnet who is called the father and founder of the Church of God Who Does Nothing. Alan, tell us how all this started and what exactly is the Church Of God Who Does Nothing?
Alan Turnet:
Jay, it all started as a joke, and honestly I still consider it to be a joke. One day we had a discussion about the new paradigm shift in understanding of intelligence and as it often happens among MIT students, we went quite far off topic.

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Internet Causes Amnesia?

Thursday, April 19th, 2007
William James:
Our memory is always used in the service of some interest; we remember things which we care for or which are associated with things we care for. When we wish to fix a new thing our conscious effort should not be so much to impress and retain it as to connect it with something already there. The connecting is thinking. I would say that the art of remembering is the art of thinking.

The human brain is a very powerful and adaptive system. A curious example of the brain’s ability to adapt is our bad visual memory. As you all know it is quite difficult to hold a mental picture in mind of what you have just seen. The reason for that is simple, it is not necessary for the brain to memorize the image while you can actually see that image with your eyes. In a sense, the brain uses sight as the external memory, so it adapted to not spend effort on memorizing what it is seeing.

Student:
Professor, may I ask a question?

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