1 Buridan's Ass The problem of Buridan's Ass, named after the fourteenth century French philosopher Jean Buridan, states that an ass placed equidistant between two bales of hay must starve to death because it has no reason to choose one bale over the other. With the beneet of modern mathematics, the argument can be expressed as follows. Assume that, at time 0, the ass is placed at position x al...