And two of the things about Bengal: they like their savory dishes and they like their sweets.So by the time I grew up, again, I had a well-established passion for food. Now I was growing up in the late '60s and early '70s, andthere were a number of other passions I was also interested in, but these two were the ones that differentiated me.And then life was fine, dandy. Everything was okay, until I got to about the age of 26, and I went to a movie called "Short Circuit."Oh, some of you have seen it. And apparently it's being remade right now and it's going to be coming out next year.It's the story of this experimental robot which got electrocuted and found a life.And as it ran, this thing was saying, "Give me input. Give me input."And I suddenly realized that for a robot both information as well as food were the same thing.Energy came to it in some form or shape, data came to it in some form or shape.And I began to think, I wonder what it would be like to start imagining myselfas if energy and information were the two things I had as input -- as if food and information were similar in some form or shape.
