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Red Beans Madness
The second annual winner of the Red Beans Madness competition. gastronomynew orleansred beans and riceRene Guzman
Walker Percy Wednesday 180
The Antinomy of Science Examples of the scientific assertion S is P: The square of the time of revolution of any planet is proportional to the cube of the mean distance from the sun. (Kepler’s third law of planetary orbits) The force of attraction between two bodies is in direct proportion to the product of…
The Journal of Mind and Behavior
Volume 38, Numbers 3 and 4, Summer and Autumn 2017 now available. Notable contributions, at least for me, are McCarroll’s review of Rowlands and Trueb’s review of Miller. Cognitive sciencejournal of mind and behaviorMark RowlandsMemoryphenomenologyphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindPsychology
Sleep behavior assessment via smartwatch and stigmergic receptive fields
This from Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. Stigmergy is finding ever more practical application. In this paper, we present an automatic tool for monitoring sleep behavior that uses a commercially available smartwatch, in order to sample heart rate and wrist inertial data, and a novel detection technique based on stigmergic receptive fields (SRFs). The SRF transforms…
The Carolina Reaper
A 34-year-old man with no significant medical history presented to the emergency room (ER) after an episode of thunderclap headache. His symptoms began with dry heaves but no vomiting immediately after participation in a hot pepper contest where he ate one ‘Carolina Reaper,’ the hottest chili pepper in the world. — BMJ Case Reports Carolina…
What It Is Like To Perceive: Direct Realism and the Phenomenal Character of Perception
Forthcoming from Chris Maloney. So, in this sense, the perceiving mind is an extended mind. Perception is unbrokered cognition of what is real, exactly as it really is. Christopher MaloneyCognitive scienceconsciousnessExtended MindPerceptionPhilosophy of mindqualia
Augmented Reality: David Bowie in Three Dimensions
The text is banal but the 360 degree graphics of the outfits are terrific. David Bowiemusicphilosophical music
Bryan Magee: Philosophical Broadcaster Extraordinaire
I still go back to Magee’s programmes from time to time. It is quite extraordinary that with many a genuine expert by his side, he quite often rearticulated an argument better than his expert guests — the mark of a fine and honest expository mind, devoid of the activistic fuckwittery that has come to tarnish…
Adam Smith’s Libertarian Paternalism
Available gratis from The Oxford Handbook of Freedom. Adam SmithautonomyCass Sunsteinchoicefreedomimpartial spectatorJames OttesonLibertarianismLibertyRichard Thaler
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