Archive for the ‘madness’ Category
Saturday, October 11th, 2008
The PMF is not in the habit of recommending movies, but the world finds itself in the middle of a big ass financial storm, with nobody understanding what is going on, and with a re-design necessary. For times like these, the 2006 movie, "C.S.A. The Confederate States of America" ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Take any two human brains and compare them. Their coarse structure will be similar: here a gyrus, there the thalamus. The correspondence is pretty good as you look closer and closer, until you get down to a certain scale. The exact scale probably depends on the local ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Allow me a small moment of hubris. We have been fundamentally wrong about what kind of thing the brain is. We have worked with the notion that it was some kind of a controller. This produces the embarrassing question of who is doing the controlling.
No.
Brains bring forth ...
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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
To whom should the Pink Monkey Farmer be talking? This blog (and several related ones) are essentially private conversations between myself and my inner farmer/crank. However, there are always opportunities for interesting discussions. In my day job, I’m supposed to be a lecturer and a speech ...
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