----- Original Message -----
From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: Lateral Thinking
> I am two boxes, each inside the other;
> I am myself, I have no brother;
> I am exactly what I claim;
> If you guess this riddle, speak my name.
Three possibilities immediately occur to me. The first one is the "slick
trick" answer. "Eliezer Yudkowsky". Assuming you are an only child or only
have sisters. (Anything can be considered the intersection of two sets
delete a different element from each one. i.e. The set of you minus one skin
cell and the set of you minus a different skin cell.)
The other is a forced air furnace. The fire box and the air chamber
interpenetrate each other and share portions of a common outer boundary.
Someone already mentioned circulatory system, which is pretty close in
spirit to another guess, the lungs.
Kyle L. Webb
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