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• So far as I can tell, no one has looked in to the same person having different beliefs at different times and in different contexts. That is my own experience. Christian scripture at least acknowledges this cf John 20:27-29
• Dileep George and Jeff Hawkins' Hierarchical Temporal Memory model provides a hard AI implementation rooted in the neural circuitry of the neocortex that demonstrates how beliefs are affected by context and change through time.

"(This week's Time comes with a mini-essay by me about Harry Potter and What It All Means. Because this Potter fellow just isn't getting his due in the press -- damn that biased, death-eating MSM! The slot for the piece in the mag is fairly short, so I'm going to post the unedited, extended-play version here.) Joanne Rowling has three fancy houses and more money than the Queen, but she still doesn't have a middle name: the "K" is just an empty invention, which she added for effect when she published her first book. Whatever she's doing, it's working. Since 1997 -- the year Princess Diana died and the word "weblog" was born -- Rowling has sold more than 325 million books. The fifth Harry Potter movie is eking out respectful reviews, and the final novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be released at midnight on July 20th. A theme park is in the works in Orlando, Fla. By now quite enough has been said about Harry Potter. But what does Harry Potter say about us? Rowling's work is so familiar that we've forgotten how radical it really is. Look at her literary forebears. In The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien fused his ardent Catholicism with a deep nostalgic love for the unspoiled English landscape. C.S. Lewis was a devout Anglican whose"