Review of Robert Sapolsky's texts
Nov. 7th, 2005 03:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anhinga_anhingahttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/books/review/06shreeve.html
"In "Bugs in the Brain," he describes a parasite that infects the brains of rats without any effect on their behavior except that they lose their instinctual aversion to the smell of cats and, instead, are drawn to it. Needless to say, such absurdly obliging prey is quickly gobbled up: bad for the rat but great for the parasite, since it can only reproduce inside a cat host."
"In "Bugs in the Brain," he describes a parasite that infects the brains of rats without any effect on their behavior except that they lose their instinctual aversion to the smell of cats and, instead, are drawn to it. Needless to say, such absurdly obliging prey is quickly gobbled up: bad for the rat but great for the parasite, since it can only reproduce inside a cat host."
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Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 05:37 am (UTC)Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 08:53 am (UTC)Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 09:33 am (UTC)и почему бы не приспособить студентов к написанию удобного софта на эту тему --- а то чего они всякую лажу пишут, пусть сделают что-нибудь полезное, это будет даже более эффективно с точки зрения образования...
Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 03:02 pm (UTC)студентов к написанию удобного софта на эту тему - боюсь, что для этого нужен AI. Это вам не компилятор, тут думать надо!
Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 05:46 pm (UTC)а разве у них нет своего "естественного" "I"? :-)
Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 06:08 pm (UTC)Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 06:11 pm (UTC)Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 06:13 pm (UTC)Errr.. Is this too much?
Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 06:18 pm (UTC)Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 06:20 pm (UTC)How about this: behaves reasonably in somewhat foreseeable unpredictable situations?
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Date: 2005-11-17 06:24 pm (UTC)Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 06:26 pm (UTC)Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 06:27 pm (UTC)Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 06:33 pm (UTC)Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 06:40 pm (UTC)it's a parameter, on which "it" (the simplicity of the imlementation of [...]) depends...
Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 05:55 pm (UTC)Did it send you its copy?
Gluchit :-(
Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 06:09 pm (UTC)Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 06:13 pm (UTC)I've got it finally, but there was a delay, so that they were even not in order...
Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 06:14 pm (UTC)Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 06:17 pm (UTC)Perhaps, I was more important that myself :-)
Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 06:21 pm (UTC)Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 06:22 pm (UTC)"My own two comments were sent not in order...
Perhaps I was more important than myself :-)"
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Date: 2005-11-17 06:24 pm (UTC)Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 03:28 pm (UTC)