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the Russias went through a similar physical transformation.  When
Count Kokovtsov entered the czar's residence at Tsarskoye Selo for an
audience on January 19, 1917, he was appalled by what he found.  Says
Russia expert Harrison Salisbury, Kokovtsov "hardly recognized the
Czar, so much had he aged.  His face was thin, his cheeks sunken, his
eyes almost without color, the whites yellow and the pupils gray and
lifeless.  They wandered vaguely from object to object." 13
On the other hand, Kerensky, the leader of the victorious
Socialist party, the Mensheviks, was invigorated like the bee who finds
her cargo in great demand.  Suddenly Kerensky was catapulted from a
position as a factional leader to head of state, leader of the Duma--the
parliamentary body that now controlled the country.  As he rushed to
the Duma's podium and took command, witnesses said that Kerensky
seemed to become a physically larger man.  "He grew," exclaimed V.V.
Shulgin, a monarchist Duma deputy who was present when Kerensky
brought order to the confused deliberative chambers, "He grew in the
mud of the Revolution."14
In neural nets built by computer specialists, nodes that are
needed to solve a current problem are strengthened.  The nodes no
longer necessary weaken and shut down.  The same thing happens
with human beings.
Like bees, we are in constant contact.  Clint Eastwood rides into
town from the desert, carrying his own gun, and shares his thoughts
with no one. On the other hand, when you watch a classic Clint
Eastwood film, you're generally seated at your television.  A half an
hour before you saw the picture, you watched the news.  That
broadcast gave you a sense of where your country stood in the relative
hierarchy of nations at that moment.  The economic portion gave a
feeling of the health of the superorganism of which you are a part.  The
ads conveyed an impression of the group posture on everything from
hairstyles to automobiles.  By the time you go to bed at night, you've
exchanged information with dozens of people.  You've absorbed data
that has brought you in touch with every level of your society.
  m his grasp and a Revolution was in the offing, the Emperor of All
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