Here’s a review from the NYT by the ever caustic Colin McGinn (one of my favourite philosophers of mind, however unfashionable some might think he is). H/T to Paul Raymont for the link and for tracking the toing and froing. Here is the equally polemical Raymond Tallis with a joint review of Deacon and Gazzaniga.
Oakeshott on Science as a Mode of Experience
A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 12
Stigmergy and emergent behaviour
The socially extended mind
Consciousness and the social mind
Science of Swarms
Jazz as conversation
Oakeshott on the Character of Religious Experience: Need There be a Conflict Between Science and Religion?
The Dynamically Extended Mind – A Minimal Modeling Case Study
A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 11
Hayek
Preservation Hall: New Album
Kingdom Come
Functionalism and mental boundaries
The Neuroscience of Freedom and Creativity: Our Predictive Brain
