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Saturday, April 18th, 2009
The relationship between the individual and the collective is our recurring concern here. I am delighted to see the wonderful Wynton Marsalis deliver a beautiful lecture about just that. His metaphors are apt, and have the ring of truth.
The lecture is here. Be entertained. Be very ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Michael Pollan offers a brief talk on TED that describes how different the world looks if one adopts a grasses point of view. The move is akin to Dawkins' famous adoption of the gene's point of view. The Pink Monkey Farm idea is similar. Following the thesis presented at PworldRworld.com, ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
More and more, I find that the vision of being I am outlining here and in the sister site is one that aligns well with the enactive approach in Cognitive Science. I try not to read too much ahead of me, but when I do read in this area, things ...
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
Within psychology, the branch that aspires to provide coherent stories about our mental lives (I didn't say our subjective experience) is Cognitive Psychology. It is frankly a mess. It uses terms such as 'perception', 'sensation', 'emotion', 'memory', and 'valence' with gleeful abandon, without any basis whatsoever apart from received tradition ...
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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
The Pink Monkey Farm is in no way affiliated with this crowd of pink monkeys (its a crowded world), but I have a feeling we might be friends. (pinkmonkey.com is certainly no relation)
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