A thought on the cat's name ...

Even when it was thought that the animal was forever gone, he came back.

Even when Kumiko tried to craft a life outside the influence of the real Noboru Wataya, it all came back.

Have you noticed whether Dan ever defines rationality? I can't recall where he does. He seems to imply that rationality is a cut-and-dried logical quality, but I wouldn't want to restrict rationality so much. One also doesn't need to write a book to tell us that we don't mainly run on logic! I don'...

If you accept that much of our behavior in the economic sphere isn't rational (and I think I do), does that mean that, overall, we aren't rational? I'm not sure about that. When I first read the description of this book, I expected to disagree with much of it because it sounded as if it was going t...

By saying that cheating can be rational, doesn't that essentially prove our predictable irrationality? I think one has to start by saying that being honest is rational, because if you take the value out of any sort of context and treat it just as an idea, nearly everyone would say that honesty is im...