> At 06:41 AM 9/18/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>
>> We are obviously not wired for logic. (I speak as a
>> former teacher of the subject, as well as a current
>> often futile supplicant on its merits to the courts.)
>> I wonder what the evolutionary advantage is in
>> thinking like that? Or do we survive despite thinking
>> in this half-assed way? jks
> Mental heuristics usually serve us well, but can get us balled up from
> time to time. If we all had Intel processors for brains we'd all be the
> same - and while that might be peaceful, it crosses the lines into
> boring. But then again how would we know, or even care, since
> uniformity maximizes our utility by minimizing our disutility.
>
> Maybe the Borg got it right, but until I submit I will continue to infer
> high price mean high quality, and that if the last 3 tosses were heads
> then the odds of the next toss being a tails are enhanced!! Or its
> baseball corollary, if they haven't won the World Series in the past
> 80/100 years, the chances are that *this* is the Red Sox's / Cub's (pick
> one) year.
Cubs. -joan
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