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p. 270. ficeThe god that . . the question itself a A A 26 Beckett, The Unnamable, op. cit., p. 390 aceThe thing said . . . a common source.fi A A n Shakespeare, aceA world full. . . signifying nothing" A A 28. E. E. Cummings, / (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969), p. 69. in any number of . . . ficep

mmarized by Steward Elliot Guthrie, who argues "religion is anthropomorphism" in his book Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 178. The most lucid and succinct historical treatment remains Frank E. Manuel, The Eighteenth Century Confronts the Gods (Cambridge: Harv

lished articles on topics ranging from treatment for back pain to computational mathematics, and from social determinants of health to the size of Shakespeare's vocabulary. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and a Fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. The qu

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ising the post-repentance blessings of Jesus. The eldest, articulate, bright and prematurely worldly, had been an ardent memorizer and appreciator of Shakespeare, especially the mystical Tempest, the music of Aaron Copeland and Igor Stravinsky, the improvisations of Charlie Parker and Cannon Ball Adderley and

ng precisely the tiny, residual “statistical differences among individuals.” 32 Matthew Amold, Culture and Anarchy, Jane Garnett, ed. (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2006). 112 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016915 To be sure, some recent achievements in artificial intelligence have been remarkably impressive. Computers can

ommunity, must say something substantially different from the community’s previous common stock of information.” This was why “schoolboys do not like Shakespeare,” he concluded: The Bard’s couplets may depart starkly from random bitstreams, but they had nonetheless become all too familiar to the sense-making p

ng precisely the tiny, residual “statistical differences among individuals.” 32 Matthew Amold, Culture and Anarchy, Jane Garnett, ed. (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2006). 112 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016332 To be sure, some recent achievements in artificial intelligence have been remarkably impressive. Computers can

ommunity, must say something substantially different from the community’s previous common stock of information.” This was why “schoolboys do not like Shakespeare,” he concluded: The Bard’s couplets may depart starkly from random bitstreams, but they had nonetheless become all too familiar to the sense-making p

summarized by Steward Elliot Guthrie, who argues “religion is anthropomorphism” in his book Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 178. The most lucid and succinct historical treatment remains Frank E. Manuel, 7he Fighteenth Century Confronts the Gods (Cambridge: Harvard

published articles on topics ranging from treatment for back pain to computational mathematics, and from social determinants of health to the size of Shakespeare’s vocabulary. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and a Fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. The quest

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join in on future cooperative ventures, but this is a delayed benefit, and it may never materialize. This adds another potential opportunity cost. As Shakespeare so deftly noted “Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.” Hauser Chapter 1. Nature’s secrets 47 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012793 Waiting for a future be

P.R. (Eds.). (2011). The Social Psychology of Morality. Washington: American Psychological Association. Staub, E. (2010). Overcoming Evil. New York: Oxford University Press. Trivers, R. (2011). The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life. New York: Viking Press. Notes: * Delusions, confabu

the way for awe-inspiring bursts of creativity in art, music, literature and science. A promiscuous brain enabled Bach and Bono, Picasso and Pollock, Shakespeare and Shaw, and Descartes and Darwin. A promiscuous brain enables us to imagine things we have never directly experienced, to create once unimaginable

ness and in health.” For example, love causes individuals to ignore other potential mates, even if those mates are better than one’s current mate, as Shakespeare’s Juliet did when her love for Romeo led her to rebuff the advances of the otherwise-more-suitable Paris. Why does love have this property? Our mode

Biology 239, 435 (2006). K. Sigmund, The calculus of selfishness (Princeton University Press, 2010). M. J. Osborne, An introduction to game theory (Oxford University Press, USA, 2003). P. D. Taylor, L. B. Jonker, Mathematical biosciences 40, 145 (1978). 14 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026534 --- PAGE BREAK --- [17] J. W. Weibul