1,000 knives of thought - answers
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| knife 213 |
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| Sometimes, stupidity is a goal. When? |
| 1/Mar/99 |
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When your cleverness calls for unwanted problems. (Yes, some problems are wanted for fun.)
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| knife 214 |
| How can you use your preciseness as an instrument to blow up your impact upon people? |
| 2/Mar/99 |
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Show it as a form of radicalism.
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| knife 215 |
| Are you the master or slave of humanism? |
| 3/Mar/99 |
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I'm an evangelist of abolishing slavery to humanism.
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| knife 216 |
| Will the intestines ever be intelligent? |
| 4/Mar/99 |
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It has its own neural centre, and in that sense it is already intelligent, as in an intelligent object (such as a neuro-fuzzy washing machine). Whether it will be more intelligent or not is another question. In order for it to be, it has to be assisted by an evolutional force. It requires that the host of the intestine survives better if it is more intelligent, which is a difficult situation to arise.
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| knife 217 |
| What is BEBO of BABIBU? |
| 5/Mar/99 |
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It symbolises that our languages do not have to coincide.
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| knife 218 |
| When does an illusion help you? |
| 6/Mar/99 |
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Whenever I try to create something. I think that thinking that I can create something is an erroneous perception of reality.
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| knife 219 |
| Explain about computers and mental disorders. |
| 7/Mar/99 |
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The concept of mental disorder shows that mentality is regarded as something functional. Otherwise there would be no disorder. This concept must have originated after the invention of a some sort of computing device or computing theory. Our bodies are understood by analogies of available technologies.
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| knife 220 |
| What are the three selves of yours? |
| 8/Mar/99 |
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My mind, society of cells with the same MHC (Major Histocompatibility Complex), and my stomach.
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| knife 221 |
| What are the pros and cons of awarding prizes to people? |
| 9/Mar/99 |
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That it assists the person's self-esteem and that it creates an authority.
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| knife 222 |
| Is it possible to have a love affair with a computer network? |
| 10/Mar/99 |
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Yes. Sex is after all mental.
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| knife 223 |
| Why is there an expression such as one has a different wave length than the other? |
| 11/Mar/99 |
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Because technology has enabled us to utilise electromagnetic waves, and it has been reflected on people's understanding of oneselves. In particular, the expression corresponds to the fact that radios can communicate only if their wave lengths are shared among them.
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| knife 224 |
| Do you think composers visualise sounds when they compose? |
| 12/Mar/99 |
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Yes. I think that at least they must be grasping sounds in a spatial way, if not apparently visual. Being three-dimensional beings, we have to translate time into space in order to understand its passing without actually letting it pass.
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| knife 225 |
| Which is the wrong end of a gun? |
| 13/Mar/99 |
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Apparently the side at which the gun is pointed is wrong, as it is against the policy of survival. The opposite side is also wrong depending on situations, and it is open to discussion. In other words they are in natural and human domains respectively.
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| knife 226 |
| Why do people talk to themselves? |
| 14/Mar/99 |
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Because one has at least two selves.
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| knife 227 |
| What must be explored but not interpreted? |
| 15/Mar/99 |
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Non-verbal intelligence expressed in forms such as dreams or fine art. Interpretation merely represses the activities.
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| knife 228 |
| Why does or does not an elevator appear in your dream? |
| 16/Mar/99 |
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It appears in my dreams, and I think the reason is that due to the relaxation of muscles during sleep, I feel as if my body is floating in the air, and such feeling is represented in my dream as being in an elevator. Before I moved to a city and began to ride elevators often, I think such feeling was more often represented by flying in my dreams.
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| knife 229 |
| In what ways are animals like human children? |
| 17/Mar/99 |
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They get involved with a human society whether they like it or not.
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| knife 230 |
| Human beings have always been robots. True or false? |
| 18/Mar/99 |
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In the sense of a labouring force, the first human robot was conceived upon the industrial revolution (the concept may have existed once agriculture started). In the sense of subconsciously controlled actions, human beings have been robots from the beginning.
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| knife 231 |
| The word natural has two opposite meanings. Explain. |
| 19/Mar/99 |
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One is of nature and the other is compliant to human senses. I don't know if these are opposite of each other, but certainly they are of different abstraction level. The former is explained by physical laws and the latter by cultural tendencies.
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| knife 232 |
| It is a good deed to free slaves by buying them from their owners. True or false? |
| 20/Mar/99 |
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True if the slaves want to be freed, and then it is a good deed from the slaves' point of view. It is true also if a third party sees the situation as a problem, regardless of the perception by the owners or the slaves, and then it is a good deed from the third party's point of view. A good deed is a problem solving, and a problem is always a problem to someone in particular.
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| knife 233 |
| What do sleep and discovery have in common? |
| 21/Mar/99 |
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They both require a negative force to restrain unnecessary mental activities.
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| knife 234 |
| Limitation is closer to infinity than no limitation is. True or false? |
| 22/Mar/99 |
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True. Limitation can provide enough intensity to reach infinity. No limitation just makes your power spread over a wide area.
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| knife 235 |
| In what ways comedy is more militant than any military? |
| 23/Mar/99 |
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It expresses doubt about beliefs commonly held by people.
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| knife 236 |
| DNA decides much of what you are. True or false? |
| 24/Mar/99 |
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False. DNA is a substance. The information encoded in the substance describes the recipe to make what I am. A recipe may decide much of what a cuisine is, but if you ask a gourmand, the answer would be no.
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| knife 237 |
| Democracy is socialistic. True or false? |
| 25/Mar/99 |
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True in the sense that democracy equalises the people in principle.
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| knife 238 |
| Tell me about your childish belief. |
| 26/Mar/99 |
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I believe that I can do whatever I want to do if I try to do so.
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| knife 239 |
| Give me 10 advantages of displaying in a written language that something is for blind people. |
| 27/Mar/99 |
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| knife 240 |
| How can you finish reading a 400 page book in 5 minutes after your purchase of it? |
| 28/Mar/99 |
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Read 395 pages or so of it at the bookstore, and read the rest after you buy it.
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| knife 241 |
| Give me 10 examples of time being translated into space. |
| 29/Mar/99 |
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| knife 242 |
| If a question is well-defined, the definition is the answer to the question. True or false? |
| 30/Mar/99 |
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True because then the question is well described so that there is no room for questions, and the question becomes no longer a question.
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| knife 243 |
| Give me an answer to 2 + 5 by clearly defining the question. |
| 31/Mar/99 |
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Let me begin by defining a natural number. let there be 0, and 1 is defined as
s(0), where s() is a succession function. In English s(0) means what follows 0. x + y, where both x and y are natural numbers, is the value obtained by replacing the 0 in y with x. Therefore, 2 + 5 is defined as s(s(0)) + s(s(s(s(s(0))))), which is to obtain the value s(s(s(s(s(s(s(0))))))).
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