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…
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
The text is banal but the 360 degree graphics of the outfits are terrific. David Bowiemusicphilosophical music
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…
Available gratis from The Oxford Handbook of Freedom. Adam SmithautonomyCass Sunsteinchoicefreedomimpartial spectatorJames OttesonLibertarianismLibertyRichard Thaler
The fifth installment of Marc Champagne’s podcast. To keep apprised of Marc’s work see his website. ArchetypesCarl JungcultureJordan PetersonMarc ChampagneNature
If you like a wine that is the qualic embodiment of a dank medieval cellar (and per chance you also like the most pungent of soft cheeses, say Époisses) then this Morgon which I had at Joe Beef will be a most memorable experience. Other available Morgons, as good as they were, never lived up to this one. Here…
Going on the sample alone this could well be the most funktastic release of the year. Very excited about this upcoming from Noladelic PowerFunk due May 4. acid funkfunknew orleans
Twenty years on I guess this marks the moment when the hypothesis of extended cognition has well and truly become mainstream. This in The New Yorker. Andy ClarkArtificial intelligenceCognitive sciencedistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeExtended MindPhilosophy of mindsituated cognition
Gábor István Bíró in the Journal of Evolutionary Economics. Economicsevolutionary economicsexpertiseFriedrich HayekkeynesMichael Polanyipolitical economyTacit knowledgethe sensory order
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