Archive for the ‘evolution’ Category
Saturday, December 12th, 2009
This video features Gordon Brown, talking openly about the balance between national and human interests. This is a hot spot in the attempt to recognize the individual as we identify with the collective.
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Here is an interesting project .
Computers are introduced into the wild (a rather romantic notion). Slum kids (who?) in India are exposed to computers without the benefit of any further guidance. No adults. No instructions. In an experiment repeated several times now, they go through several ...
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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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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
In a now classic article from 1977, Sverker Runeson observed that variables which we scientists consider to be basic, such as length, duration, etc, may or may not be basic from the point of view of opportunistic, evolved perceptual systems. He suggests that perception may consist of "smart mechanism" which ...
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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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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
In this remarkable talk at TED, Jill Bolte Taylor describes the phenomenology of a stroke. She gives a very moving and spirited account of what it felt like for her to suffer a major stroke which essentially knocked out the left half of her brain. The experience was essentially mystical ...
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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
I quote this in toto. The page I found it on is a weird mixture of quantum physics and nekkid ladies. Ain't the interwebs great?
Throughout the last decade, apocalyptic visions have abounded in response to the increasing fragmentation of knowledge, dehumanization of the individual, and generalized disruption that ...
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Monday, October 8th, 2007
Word on the street is there is a war on between Science and Religion. Science in the blue corner has a rational methodology, and religion in the red corner helps people with their big questions. Celebrity Death Match style. It's not true. We have collectively gotten so ...
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