1,000 knives of thought - answers
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| knife 185 |
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| Why is cryptography one of the most prestigious, intellectual hobbies for humankind? |
| 1/Feb/99 |
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Because extracting useful secrets from an expressed form of a language is what human cerebrums are designed for.
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| knife 186 |
| Tell me problems concerning public key cryptography. |
| 2/Feb/99 |
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| knife 187 |
| Prove that you have tender feelings toward others. |
| 3/Feb/99 |
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Can't prove it to a third party.
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| knife 188 |
| What is being yourself about? |
| 4/Feb/99 |
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It's insignificant for my purposes.
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| knife 189 |
| Tell me why authentication of a person by electronic means cannot be errorless. |
| 5/Feb/99 |
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Because authenticity of a person is not an exact concept. You cannot pick a property of a person which is truely unique. You will need holistic or fuzzy logical approach for authentication, which cannot be errorless.
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| knife 190 |
| What are the pros and cons of avoiding difficulties? |
| 6/Feb/99 |
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| knife 191 |
| When does Occam`s razor fail? |
| 7/Feb/99 |
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When you are appealing to people's feelings.
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| knife 192 |
| Is there a fish called Mona Lisa? |
| 8/Feb/99 |
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I don't know. But it is always easy to name one if necessary.
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| knife 193 |
| How can a human being be a box? |
| 9/Feb/99 |
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It's difficult if he or she has to be alive. Then again, usually other people are black boxes to me.
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| knife 194 |
| What are the similarities between a dream and a factory? |
| 10/Feb/99 |
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What do you mean? A dream IS a factory.
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| knife 195 |
| Have you dreamed of internal organs and when? |
| 11/Feb/99 |
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Yes, and mainly when I was an elementary school student. Typically I would dissect myself and call for a help to put my organs back into my belly.
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| knife 196 |
| Would you like to have a body without organs? |
| 12/Feb/99 |
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I'd rather want a childhood's block.
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| knife 197 |
| Would you like to have a mechanical body? |
| 13/Feb/99 |
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As I will describe later, my body is already part machine.
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| knife 198 |
| Part of your body is already mechanical. True or false? |
| 14/Feb/99 |
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True. As far as our brains are concerned, our bodies extend to the instruments we use.
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| knife 199 |
| Why is fun more important than pain? |
| 15/Feb/99 |
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No, pain is more important than fun for my own survival. Fun is the reason for survival.
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| knife 200 |
| Tell me the name of a film from which you can learn everything. |
| 16/Feb/99 |
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"High Anxiety?" Actually, I'd say it's "My Girl" including the sequel. Veda's quest represents the beginning and her father's job represents the ending.
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| knife 201 |
| Can anyone contribute to the world with silliness? |
| 17/Feb/99 |
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Sure. "Laughter can defuse anything." is my favourite quote from a comedienne from the film "Wisecrackers."
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| knife 202 |
| Explain an example of a miracle. |
| 18/Feb/99 |
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Everything is a miracle considering other billions of possibilities.
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| knife 203 |
| Depending on fortune-telling is a proof of a lack of decisiveness. True or false? |
| 19/Feb/99 |
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False. If you decide everything by fortune-telling, you would appear as a super-decisive person, as decision making process can be constantly quick regardless of problems at hand. Perhaps it is wiser to use fortune-telling for matters of little significance.
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| knife 204 |
| How would you be described in a history book? |
| 20/Feb/99 |
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I would be one of the principal characters in my history book.
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| knife 205 |
| If you are not noteworthy in your field of activities, what is the reason? |
| 21/Feb/99 |
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Because I have been regarding becoming noteworthy as being not exactly my goal or an instrument to achieve my goal. Actually the latter should be the case, and I have to reconsider about it.
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| knife 206 |
| Give me 3 suggestions of using art for recovering from decreased economic activity in Japan. |
| 22/Feb/99 |
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| knife 207 |
| What is intelligence for a stone? |
| 23/Feb/99 |
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A stone.
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| knife 208 |
| Give me an example of a happy thought becoming deadly. |
| 24/Feb/99 |
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"Love will save the Earth." Because it is physically impossible for everyone to bring their beloved ones happiness, and the delusion caused environmental problems.
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| knife 209 |
| Give me a proof that our bodies are independent from our physical beings. |
| 25/Feb/99 |
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We can move our bodies in our dreams without physically actuating the muscles.
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| knife 210 |
| In what ways are robots already dominant over human beings? |
| 26/Feb/99 |
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We are altering our environment so that it becomes more suitable for robots.
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| knife 211 |
| Is dioxin real or unreal? |
| 27/Feb/99 |
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Anything physically affects us is real. Even if dioxin had no effect on our physical health, it would alter the wiring of our brains to worry about it anyway, and therefore it's real.
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| knife 212 |
| Reality is often surprising. Why? |
| 28/Feb/99 |
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Because it's something other than what our minds can generate from scratch. Often the nature outperforms our minds.
Your body is more personal to you than your mind is.
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