Can you solve the chess problem which holds key to human consciousness?
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Pilgrims and Adventurers: Herman Melville on Spontaneous Order and Teleocracy
Potentially interesting paper referencing Hayek and Oakeshott freely available in Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal Friedrich Hayekherman melvilleMichael Oakeshottmoby-dickphilosophical literatureSpontaneous order
Walker Percy Wednesday 129
Question (I): Which of the two, the actors or the townspeople, are the more real, that is, perceive themselves as more nearly what they are? (a) The townspeople because they have no illusions about themselves, their humdrum lives and workaday selves, whereas the actors not only live in a tinsel world but are themselves forever…
Martial arts icon Bruce Lee’s writing packs philosophical punch
Report here. bruce leeEmbodied cognitionmartial artsPhilosophyWing Chun
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed the World
Listen to Michael Lewis discuss his latest book on Freakonomics Radio: “The Men Who Started a Thinking Revolution” (skip to 1:50) and on Charlie Rose (much better than the former discussion); plus some print reviews in the New York Times, The New Yorker, the FT and The Economist. Below is a draft encyclopedia entry on Daniel Kahneman (and Amos…
Funkify Your Soul
Jazz Fest programme now available. bluegrassbluescountry and westernfunkgospelJazzjazz Festmusic
Dirk Bogarde
Recalling one of the greatest, bravest, most- cultured, eloquent, insightful and- dignified of all actors. Just over a year ago I made an observation concerning DB’s website as per below — aside from a website revamp, it’s still business as usual. cinemaDirk Bogarde
Cognitive and emotional demands of black humour processing: the role of intelligence, aggressiveness and mood
This in Cognitive Processing. A total of 156 adults rated black humour cartoons and conducted measurements of verbal and nonverbal intelligence, mood disturbance and aggressiveness. Cluster analysis yields three groups comprising following properties: (1) moderate black humour preference and moderate comprehension; average nonverbal and verbal intelligence; low mood disturbance and moderate aggressiveness; (2) low black…
The Opium of the Intellectuals
What with the “communisants” (the priesthood and their bureaucratic Stasi-like enforcers) in charge of the academy, Raymond Aron’s classic The Opium of the Intellectuals (the original English translation freely available here), still has resonance. (Want to know more about Aron? — a good place to start is here and here and I’d highly recommend Aron’s wonderfully lucid two-volume Main Currents of Sociological Thought).…
Sweet Emma Barrett
Born 120 years ago. See her Know Louisiana entry. dirty blueshumourinnuendoJazzmusicnew orleanspianoPreservation Hall Jazz BandSweet Emma Barrett
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