<div>John K Clark wrote:</div> <div>>I don't believe boredom should be treated as the enemy, although rather<BR>>unpleasant boredom is essential for any mind to retain its sanity, be it <BR>>chimpanzee mind or a Jupiter Brain mind. Of course the boredom threshold<BR>>must be carefully regulated, too much boredom and you can't concentrate, too<BR>>little boredom and you get caught in a infinite loop. I don't see why an<BR>>immortal Jupiter brain would be more likely to fall on the too much boredom<BR>>side of the line rather than the too little. </div> <div> </div> <div>Anna Replies:)</div> <div>I agree, I think peeking has a lot to do with boredom as well as lack of motivation, ignorance and laziness. </div> <div> </div> <div>>A billion huge telescopes looking in a billion directions is not an inherently</div> <div>>uninteresting situation</div> <div> </div> <div>I agree, but doesn't that mean that having a huge view
is better than having a one </div> <div>tract mind but too many views, is having too many distractions?</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>Anna</div> <div>Just curious:)</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><BR> </div><BR><BR>Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at <br>this moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it. <br>Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of <br>knowledge and use it better.<br>-Mark van Doren<p>
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