Redge's Trek through the Web

Ravings and bright ideas by a Dutch student of Artificial Intelligence, religion and faith, computers and life.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

The mind can be a funny thing

Imagine this: I was thinking about Dungeons and Dragons, and I was trying to remember the title of a book with suplement rules I once read. I just couldn't think of the name. As I usually do in these situations, I tried to think of a way I could google for it. So I remembered the name of one of the suplement rules it contained "Character Flaw". On my way to the computer I imagined entering it as a search term and the kind of result I wanted to get, the kind of result that would provide me with the title of the book. So imagined some site or forum saying "Character Flaws are a feature discussed in Unearthed Arcana..." and there I had the title.

Memory and the mind can do strange things sometimes. It was my study of Artificial Intelligence that made me think about how the mind works, and it might be interesting to find a hypothesis why I suddenly found the information I wanted. If I find out, I'll be sure to let you know.