Born on this day: the king of country-swing-blues-jazz. See The Guardian obit and AllMusic entry. It was good to see his longtime pianist Joe Krown on WWOZ yesterday. bluesClarence “Gatemouth” BrowncountryfiddleguitarJazzJoe KrownLouisianamusicSwing
THE SOURCE OF THE ANTINOMY The general source of the antinomy is not to be found, as is sometimes alleged, in the nature of the subject, man, the culture member who practices science but needs myths. Such an anthropology is in the last analysis incoherent because it requires two sorts of men, scientists who observe…
On this date in 1943 Albert Hofmann accidentally ingested LSD. Check out this documentary entitled Hofmann’s Potion. Strong Saskatoon connection to LSD research. Albert HofmannAldous HuxleyAlfred Matthew HubbardchemistryconsciousnessdrugsLSD hallucinogenicsneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindPsychedelicpsychiatryqualiaReligion & SpiritualityschizophreniaTimothy Leary
Episode 6 of Philosophizing with Marc Champagne. For more on Marc’s work see his website. Jordan Petersonmaps of meaningMarc ChampagnePhilosophyReligion & Spirituality
“Academic politics are so vicious because the stakes are so small” — attributed to Henry Kissinger. Eric Bennett’s scathing assessment of activism masquerading as inquiry. “The IYI [intellectual yet idiot] pathologizes others for doing things he doesn’t understand without ever realizing it is his understanding that may be limited” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game. The…
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The second annual winner of the Red Beans Madness competition. gastronomynew orleansred beans and riceRene Guzman
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…
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
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…
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