The Imitation Game: The Philosophical Legacy of Alan Turing
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Sad Song/Coney Island Baby
Lou Reed triumphed by turning a love for literature and a philosophy about personal alienation into a recording career. Rock as minimal modernism Lou Reed is why I’m a rabbi BerlinConey Island Babylou reedmusicsad song
Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Resolutions 2015
Humiliate people who define success in any other way than honor. In the end realize that you are only as valuable as the risks you are taking for the sake of others. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Moviegoer – quotes and extracts – 15
Being a creature of habit, as regular as a monk, and taking pleasure in the homeliest repetitions, I listen every night at ten to a program called This I Believe. Monks have their compline, I have This I Believe. On the program hundreds of the highest-minded people in our country, thoughtful and intelligent people, people…
In Search Of A Science Of Consciousness
Alva Noë discusses Evan Thompson’s Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and consciousness in neuroscience, meditation, and philosophy. Alva NoëbeingBuddhismCognitionCognitive neuroscienceconsciousnessdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeEmbodied cognitionEvan ThompsonExtended MindExternalismmeditationneurophenomenologyNeurophilosophyneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindsituated cognitionthe self
Eat Good, Stay Healthy and Don’t Worry About Being Rich
H/T to the keeper of the flame Ricky Riccardi Photo by John Loengard, summer of 1965. Here’s Louis in Ebony’s “The Reluctant Millionaire” profile from 1964: “Making money ain’t nothing exciting to me. I’ve been making my share of the dough ever since I was a teen-ager playing with Fate Marable on the riverboats. So even…
The Moviegoer – quotes and extracts – 14
FOR SOME TIME NOW the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people. In the middle of a sentence it will come over me: yes, beyond a doubt this is death. There is little to do but groan and make an excuse and slip away as…
R. G. Collingwood: A Research Companion
Just published. British IdealismEpistemologyjames connellymetaphyicspeter johnsonR. G. Collingwoodstephen leach
Joe Cocker (1944-2014)
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The Louis Armstrong childhood arrest that no one knew about
H/T to Ricky Riccardi for this article. In his 1954 autobiography, “Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans,” Armstrong writes that when he was arrested in 1913, he “had no idea what a Waifs Home was” — even though he had been sent to the home just three years earlier. “This is mind-blowing,” said Ricky Riccardi,…
