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Tuesday Oct 24, 2006
Mysteries of Cognition - part 1
The following problem (sometimes, oddly, classed as a lateral thinking problem) is as old as the hills, but in spite of this there never seems to be a shortage of people who have never heard it, but many of these do have the stamina to persevere with it for hours until they have satisfactorily figured it out. I will say more about it in a later posting, but for now here it is: A father and his son drive off to see a football match. After an enjoyable game they are driving home in the dark when they are involved in a horrific traffic accident. The father is killed outright and the son is rushed to hospital with internal injuries. But in the operating theatre the surgeon, on seeing him, exclaims "I cannot operate on this child, he is my son!" How can this be so? Posted at 02:58AM Oct 24, 2006 by John Alderson in Problem Solving | Comments:
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