[From Bruce Abbott (900113.1940 EST)]
2. You have been captured by an alien monster, a
psychologist from Jupiter. In order to obtain oxygen
to go on breathing, you are required by him to solve
a certain number of algebraic equations every day.
Does this necessarily place breathing higher in your
own hierarchy than solving algebraic equations?
It's obviously an alien because it's from Jupiter. I suppose that it's
being a psychologist that makes it a monster.
Bruce