Even choosing not to choose has meaning, with some inmates apparently seeing the last-meal question as something they simply can't face — answering it would be acknowledging their fate.
Speaking recently by phone from her home in Carmel, Calif., Cleary complained of a faulty memory, but nonetheless recalled the bathroom question as something one of her own children (she is the mother of twins) asked when she read "Mike Mulligan" to them.
Thousands of evangelicals were so enraged by the organization's decision to regard this moral question as something beyond the essential core of Christian faith that they stopped supporting orphans!
It was not until the Nazi Holocaust in the middle of the 20th century that the vast majority of Jews regarded Zionism, if not as the solution to the "Jewish question," then as something the Jews could not very well survive without.
At the same time, most AI systems also still need to get better at understanding the intent of a question and how that relates to individuals' previous questions about something, as well as their current state of mind and personality.
It would be misleading to suggest that questions about something as complicated as who we are could ever be permanently resolved.
The racist speculation in the article was something I questioned as well when visiting, but was also disputed by locals I asked.
Dr. Friedman questioned whether something as simple as will to live could explain the difference in longevity.
And its choice of works hinted that accessibility was not out of the question, as long as the music has something more than ear-catching tonality going for it.
Later, he was rather inclined to look at logical systems as formalisms having their own problems deserving research and as useful devices for solving various questions but not as something leading to the only "true" ontological scheme.
