Archive for February, 2009
09-02-22
Tags:Research Alas, I won’t be able to attend this.
Symposium: "Emotions, Natural Selection and Rationality" Symposium
http://business.richmond.edu/news_events/current_events/3-21-09_Econ_Symposium.html
Date: 20-22 March, 2009
Place: University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
The symposium focuses on how the emotions are related to morality, on one hand, and to rationality, on the other. The recent discovery of the mirror neuron system, conceivably the basis of sympathetic emotions, highlights the biological basis of […]
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09-02-18
Tags:Computing Linguistics One of those things pop up in your mind after 1:30am:
So far as I know, no computer programming language has a counterfactual conditional statement:
IF_CF (A) Then_Would_Have_Been B
Logically something like this is pretty straightforward to add: it’s not like we don’t know how to deal with modal logic (well, a lot less but […]
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