Alan Turing
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Flatland: A romance of many dimensions
Freely available from here, here, and other places besides. One of the better expositors can be found here: But finally, hearing some Flatlander spout nonsense about the two-dimensionality of the universe, A Square can contain himself no longer and proceeds to espouse the gospel of higher dimensions. For this he is imprisoned for life, because…
Walker Percy Wednesday 89
No, for that very reason he’d have done it—for the reason that he was, she saw at once, out of it, out of his life, he’d have been glad to do anything at all except whatever it was he was doing or not doing. So that she had only to say to him in the…
Integrating Computational Models of the Mind
Simon Award winner Marcin Milkowski speaking at the International Association for Computing And Philosophy 2016. A vast majority of theoretical papers in cognitive science today describe computational models of cognitive processes. My focus in this talk will be on attempts to integrate separate computational models of the mind. Most models describe just how human and non-human subjects…
The left’s version of the Tea Party
Rubin’s show has become one of the leading venues for discussing what he sees as the left’s betrayal of true liberalism . . . “You can’t stay you’re for gay rights but then be OK when certain people throw gays off roofs in the name of religion,” Rubin said. “All religions are a set of ideas.…
Doo Wop Across America
A fabulous collection (made available by a UK label) of doo wop, primarily of the N.O. variety comprising 65 tracks essential for anyone who has a soft spot for this kind of music (how can you not?), featuring The Hawks, The Spiders, Chuck Carbo and The Spiders, The Sha Weez, Boy Myles & the Sha-Weez, Sugar Boy…
The Fragmentation of Philosophy, the Road to Reintegration
The always interesting and civilized Susan Haack. “You don’t have an area” she asked, in the incredulous tone in which some people sometimes ask me, “you don’t have a cellphone?” . . . I would urge, first, that philosophers and would-be philosophers heed Locke’s shrewd counsel: that, instead of reading only one kind of book and listening to only…
Why Do Our Minds Wander?
Alva Noë comments on recent study of spontaneous thought by Ellamil, Thompson, Todd et al. Alva NoëCognitive neuroscienceconsciousnessEvan ThompsonFrancisco VarelameditationneurophenomenologyPhilosophy of mindspontaneous thought
The Complete Works of Primo Levi
“The ethics of Primo Levi” in the TLS — an overview of the Complete Works (H/T David Livingstone Smith) ethicsFranz Kafkaphilosophical literatureprimo levi. anthropologysciencetechnocratic
Booker’s vs. Taylor
I just can’t choose between these two — a tied verdict. Other opinions here and here. (Update: I’m inclined towards the Taylor. It is smoother but the Booker’s has a gorgeous nose). alcoholbooker’s bourbonbourbongastronomyqualiataylor bourbon
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