Sometimes a complex health concept is best explained through an analogy—an easily understood comparison of two different ideas. A medical analogy can be an effective communicative tool for any ...
IN 1854, English mathematician George Boole published An Investigation of the Laws of Thought – an influential book whose topic was not psychology, as one might expect, but logic. In Boole’s day, the ...
As we mentioned earlier in this series, one of the goals of these articles is to help forum members separate productive debates from flame wars. If this our goal, we have an obvious challenge: what do ...
July 25 marks the 120th anniversary of the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), or the War of Jiawu in Chinese. Three days later comes the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World ...
Melanie Mitchell has worked on digital minds for decades. She says they’ll never truly be like ours until they can make analogies. The Pulitzer Prize-winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach inspired legions ...