Monday, January 25, 2010

Why so quiet?

Children have a very clean unadulterated mode of argument.

There is a fine line between complexity and chaos... Maybe that is why we should always head the words of simple minds...

- Aunt, are you a girl or a woman?
- A Woman
- And, can you have children?
- Yes, but I don't want to right now
- Oh

This dialog with a child reveals an Aristotelian handling of logic. It also reveals how easily accepted new information becomes incorporated as truth.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Evolution.. under pressure

This article and its related investigation are a testament to the speed evolutionary trait modification can take place when the stakes are high.

These changes have been taking shape in as little over a dozen generations!

Moscow's Stray Dogs Evolving Greater Intelligence, Including a Mastery of the Subway

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