http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v59/i4/p381_1

I've experienced roughly the same thing. I think of it like this: when I experience an unexpectedly good outcome, I immediately feel a feeling of gratitude. Normally when this happens it is due to another person's actions (I'm given a gift or a promotion, or I'm pulled out of the way of a speeding bus, say), and as social creatures we pay attention to that and strongly associate the resultant feeling of gratitude with that person.

But it's not the person that (directly) causes the feeling, it's the circumstances. So when the feeling is caused by a good outcome that was not directly or intentionally caused by a person's actions, our brain by habit or instinct seeks out a backup candidate: God, luck, etc.

Currently outstanding requests:

1. When the only constant is change.

2. NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO-PI-R) and Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM)

3. The effect of iodine supplementation on cognition of mildly iodine deficient young New Zealand adults.

4. (Found) Ruddick, William. 1980. “Concluding note.” In Philosophers in Medical Centers, edited by William Ruddick, 81–2. New York: Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs. OCLC:7424036

5. (Found) Hooper, Edward. 1999. “The quieting of Louis Pascal.” In The River: A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS, 365–74. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co. OCLC:39905078

6. (Found) Pascal, Louis. 1986. “Judgement day.” In Applied Ethics, edited by Peter Singer, 105–24. Oxford: Oxford University Press. OCLC:13820779

7. A number of old AI papers

8. Machine consciousness: plausible idea or semantic distortion?

9. (Found) Zadeh (1950), Thinking Machines, A New Field in Electrical Engineering.

Please respond to these under the original request (linked).

Needed: Zadeh (1950), Thinking Machines, A New Field in Electrical Engineering.

Can anybody think of a good use for being the only person in the world with Lactokinesis (Telekinesis, but only with dairy products)? I saw a TV show where a guy turned into a psychopathic murderer because nobody thought his power was cool, and since then I've spent a bit of my idle time trying to think of a way to maximize money or fame with the ability.

The problem is scalability. Even if you could do something like super-ultra pasteurize milk, or speed up milking processes, or cure lactose intolerance... you can only do it one unit at a time, and it's really domain specific. Not like Magneto.

Value relations revisited.

Hey Vincent. Would you mind sending me copies of the three papers? (I assume the first two relate to the third, which I read, and liked, a long time ago. If they are unrelated, I'm not that interested.) My name is Pablo Stafforini, and my email address is FirstName@LastName.com, with the obvious substitutions. Thanks!

Somewhat to my surprise, he's apparently still alive, although I wonder whether this 91-year old has email or a copy.

• Learning Machines
• How much can machines learn?
• Faster than Thought
• Consciousness and Behavior
• Thinking by Machine
• Man and the "Thinking" Machine
• The thinking of men and machines
• Latest Methods for the Conception and Education of Intelligent Machines
• Toward Intelligent Machines
• Can machines be intelligent?

Some more older stuff I am looking for. Any help finding them would be greatly appreciated.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13546780442000150