Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Book Excerpt for the Day


    Life is a kaleidoscope of pains and pleasures, despairs and hopes, family and friends, careers and games, loves and luck, learning and failures, and health and illnesses; not mere itches and scratches.  But do not all these things come down to itching and scratching?  Are not itching and scratching representative of what goes on in life?  All the things mentioned in our list are, ultimately, matters involving some discontent (itches) to overcome and (if we are lucky?) the overcoming (scratching) which provides relief.  What is the value in that?

    (from Can A Robot Be Human?, by Peter Cave)

  7½*/10.  The complete review is here.
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