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Why do we need to specialize? Our time is limited, we cannot do everything and need focussed efforts into a few things. How do we decide what we want to focus on? I was recently going through virtual economies paper and the auctions setting particularly interested me. Agents are given...
Our mind contains representations (perfect/imperfect) of the world. When someone is able to understand and control their mind, it is said they can understand and conquer the world (in spirituality). Why so? Probably pico-economics has an answer. It describes self has conflicting sub-selves with conflicting goals. Did you ever wonder...
Real-world has patterns - sun rises a certain direction, planets move in orbitals with certain speeds, atoms arranged in a certain way, a certain number (Pi) occurs in nature, big-bang or formation of life happened in a certain manner (whether known or unknown to us). Learning involves recognition of such...
When I say imagine being happy, everyone will have a flashback of a different moment in their life - some might imagine staying close to their loved ones; for some, happiness might be the day they became parents, found love, got an award (something along terms of achieved "X", did...