http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/philosophy-20/ Just another Oracle weblog Sat, 18 May 2013 11:04:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/philosophy-20/#comment-52761 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:19:57 +0000 http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/?p=10326#comment-52761 In the end I couldn’t resist spending a little time to see if either of my hypotheses were correct – and it’s amazing how much work has gone into studying Jays. One of the first paper abstracts I came across described how they seem to be capable of limiting their current actions to be better able to cater for two possible future outcomes – i.e. if I do A now it doesn’t give me the best immediate payoff, but it gives me a better payoff in the future whether X or Y happens. If only we could train them to understand Oracle !

]]> http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/philosophy-20/#comment-52603 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:52:55 +0000 http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/?p=10326#comment-52603 I have some empathy for the bird scientists community. Poor they, will never have the chance to read “Practical Jays” or “Bird Feeding Fundamentals” :)

]]> http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/philosophy-20/#comment-52587 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:29:22 +0000 http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/?p=10326#comment-52587 Your phrase “accident of intuition” in this post is beautiful; I’ll remember it for the rest of my days. Thank you!

]]> http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/philosophy-20/#comment-52581 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:04:24 +0000 http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/?p=10326#comment-52581 A good advice for sure – and a nice example from the world (there is one!) outside of Oracle :-)

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