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Oh, come on... I had to take two psychology electives in college, and while I loved Psych 101 (a survey course -- initially every week we discussed a new mental disorder we decided we each, individually, possessed, until midway through we switched to physiology so that we could all decide we had new physical disorders instead... :-) ), the second one was something like, "Modeling of Cognitive Processes," wherein the professor proceeded to tell us that he understood the mammallian brain so well, he could program his computer to "perfectly emulate" the behavior of an animal as complex as a mouse. Somehow I wasn't convinced, and really didn't enjoy the course.

Something like abnormal psychology, where you studied the likes or Dimmy, could have been far more entertaining! (AbPsych actually was a quite popular course...)

---Joel

Believe it or not, I took a one credit engineering ethics course way back as an undergraduate. It was pretty cool, actually... an evening class, and most of the sessions consisted of a series of videos (in high-def on a big screen -- it was live form some well-equipped production TV studio somewhere on the east coast, as I recall) where some roundtable of guys debated various "ethically unclear" scenarios. Towards the end we have some local guest speakers, including a professor from the industrial engineering department, I think it was, who had been an expert witness in various product liability cases and described some of the more interesting ones.

The homework was just, "write up a couple of pages on what you thought of the last video or lecture." As long as you actually turned in the work and managed to string a few coherent sentences together, you got an 'A.'

That being said, I do think I view the world and engineering ethics rather differently today than I did back then, 20 years ago now; you need to get out into the workforce and experience life a bit first to really encounter some of the issues.

---Joel

P.S. -- Said engineering ethics course had no discussions of schematic drawing conventions. Should I write and complain? :-)

Wouldn't it be orders of magnitude cheaper to just use a real mouse? ;-)

Everybody who's ever been in a 12-step program knows that the therapists are the sickest of the lot - as long as you can be "fixing" somebody, you don't have to look at yourself.

Cheers! Rich

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Which is why I think that you shouldn't be angry with what I did to your picture.

You should have laughed your ass off at it, but you pissed and moaned. I'd post it again, but you'd piss and moan... again.

You should see yourself.

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