(11/28-29/13) Home Day 2 and 3; Coffee and Noise

(Taken around 11 pm on Thursday.  It was beyond cold.  This is an Itallian Ice booth.  There was a line.  Speechless)

What have you changed your mind about?  Why?

Jeffrey Epstein: "The question presupposes a well defined "you", and an implied ability that is under "your" control to change your "mind". The "you" I now believe is distributed amongst others (family friends , in hierarchal structures,) i.e. suicide bombers, believe their sacrifice is for the other parts of their "you". The question carries with it an intention that I believe is out of one's control. My mind changed as a result of its interaction with its environment. Why? because it is a part of it." (here)

(Adlai Stevenson, cite)

"However, the use of a discrete, symbolic encoding to represent complex and noisy perceptual stimuli allows speakers to remember or align quantity information with much higher accuracy than they can by using their sensory short-term memory. Thus, numbers may be better thought of as an invention: A cognitive technology for representing, storing, and manipulating the exact cardinalities of sets. Do the Pirahã then possess mental representations of the cardinalities of large sets? We do not believe that our experiments show evidence supporting this hypothesis. Success in the one-to-one and uneven match tasks requires participants to understand that the addition or subtraction of exactly one object makes a match incorrect, even for large quantities. Thus, the Pirahã understand the concept of one (in spite of having no word for the concept)." (Michael C. Frank, Daniel L. Everett, Evelina Fedorenko and Edward Gibson (2008), Number as a cognitive technology: Evidence from Pirahã language and cognition [found: here]; emphasis added)

Observations, Dirk Coffeehouse (11/29)

• A man was carrying a red book.  I saw the binding.  It was called "The Red Book"
• Ice coffee seems to be perpetually filling, I can finish my cup
• I miss working at the library, at a coffee shop making noise is some how acceptable.
• I am writing a paper about sound without making any noise
• My Math Final Practice Exam just was released, in other news I am very scared.