Showing posts with label Cognitive Mechanisms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cognitive Mechanisms. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Counter-Intuitive

In End of Faith, page 183 :

When asked how thick a piece of newspaper would be if one could fold it upon itself one hundred times in succession, most of us imagine something about the size of a brick. A little arithmetic reveals, however, that such an object would be as thick as the known universe.