Yampolskiy and others have shown that the space of possible minds is vast, actually infinite (Yampolskiy, 2015). A question of interest is “Which activities can minds perform during their lifetime?” This question is very broad, thus in this article restricted to “Which non-boring activities can minds perform?” The space of potential non-boring activities has been called by Yudkowsky “fun space”...

Although he is best known for his classic textbook, A History of Experimental Psychology, Edwin Garrigues Boring published dozens of articles in The American Journal of Psychology and used its various formats to guide the discipline in the early 20th century. This report reviews a small sample of his publications, including obituaries, notes, and experimental articles, and presents them in hist...

Combinatorial sutured manifold theory is used to study the effects of attaching a 2–handle to an essential simple closed curve on a genus two boundary component of a compact, orientable 3–manifold. The main results concern degenerating handle additions to a simple 3– manifold and essential surfaces in the exterior of a knot or link obtained by “boring” a split link or unknot. (Boring is an oper...