Amy A. Kass, 1940-2015
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Goodbye to the genius who changed the way we think (and you didn’t know even know it)
John Holland’s obituary by Scott Page (H/T Melanie Mitchell) John Holland’s complexity studies helped us understand what this complex bacterial colony has in common with your brain, political theory, ants, computers, urban life and more. antsComplex adaptive systemcomplexitycomplexity studiesComputer Sciencejohn hollandMelanie MitchellScott PageSpontaneous orderStigmergy
Walker Percy Wednesday 48
The game was the thing. One became impatient with non-game happenings—a nurse coming in to empty the urinal. Time disposed itself in short tolerable stretches between the bright beads of the games. The score itself, toted up and announced, had the cheerful workaday effect of a small tidy business. It came to be understood too…
The Prisoner
Numbered Man – An Analysis of The Prisoner Number Six: Where am I? Number Two: In the Village. Number Six: What do you want? Number Two: Information. Number Six: Whose side are you on? Number Two: That would be telling. We want information… information… in formation. Number Six: You won’t get it. Number Two: By…
Hayek’s Capital and Interest
Coming in November. Austrian EconomicsbankingEconomicsFriedrich Hayeklarry whitemoney
Walter Anderson: Realizations of an Artist
A terrific documentary on the life and times of Walter Anderson. A most philosophical, mystical and literary mind. Check out the trailer. aestheticsArtarts and craftsnaturalistpaintingphilosophy of artWalter Inglis Andersonwin riley
Riopelle and LA LEYENDA cheese
With friends of mine posting reports of their gastronomic adventures in Montreal I thought I’d begin to counter with this wonderful cheese. I will be reporting back from Montreal with my own food porn in a few weeks. Followed up by La Leyenda, Spain being the other perhaps most important gastromic destination on my bucket list. foodgastronomyLA LEYENDAmontrealquebecRiopelle…
Who’s Next
One of the great albums of the R+R era released on this day in ’71. Rather than posting the usual, I’ve gone for this very tongue in cheek Entwhistle song — knowing what I do about Entwhistle the song must have some basis in his own marital problems. Much like John Paul Jones’s contribution to Led Zep,…
Philosophical Approaches to Social Neuroscience
Phil Robbins and I are the action editors for the following “in Press” papers. Will Retributivism Die and Will Neuroscience Kill It? Iskra Fileva, Jonathan Tresan Reuse and body-formatted representations in simulation theory Shaun Gallagher Would a Neuroscience of Violence Aid in Understanding Legal Culpability? Valerie Gray Hardcastle Beyond sensorimotor segregation: On mirror neurons and…
Can you really upload your mind?
Radio discussion on ABC’s The Philosopher’s Zone Self/less— a film currently doing the rounds—entertains the idea of digital immortality. It might be a work of science fiction but what it portrays is gaining serious traction in the real world. A number of philosophers, neuroscientists, and assorted futurists believe that by mid century a safe form…
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