Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Things that you believe but cannot prove...

As picked up on slashdot, the edge has an excellent collection of responses to its question of the year "what do you believe that you cannot prove?"... I especially like: Nesse (on the advantage of blind belief), Schank (on irrational choices), Rovelli (stating that time des not exist), Bering (on the paradox of knowing what it feels like to be dead), Gershenfeld (on the difficulty of proving progress), and Bruce Sterling's simple We're headed for climatic mayhem.

Then there is a nice one for self analysis - do we do this? + some more technical ones to subscribe to: Gilbert and McCarthy.

Lastly at least a couple to diasgree with (sorry guys)!: Feinberg and Dennet...


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