Archive for December, 2007
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, 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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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
I'm listening to an interview with Dan Dennett by Susan Blackmore. I like Dennett a whole lot, though we often disagree. I often find he takes a first promising step towards genuine insight, only to veer off at the last minute, thereby avoiding upsetting the apple cart. So here are ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
In 2005, the Dali Lama addressed the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Not everyone was happy with this. Here is the text of a petition by scientists to stop it. I just wish we were ready for such dialogue. However, I can see that ...
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