Lionel Ferbos’ Funeral
A snippet from yesterday’s funeral. JazzLionel Ferbosnew orleanssecond line
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A Question of Madness
My favorite of Shannon’s short stories, probably because it has some philosophical issues nicely woven in. Percy, of course, deployed “what if” devices in his novels and non-fiction: One can’t read of that [Civil] War without playing the fascinating game of what-if . . . What if Jackson had lived through Chancellorsville? What if McClellan had…
Conventionalism, coordination, and mental models: from Poincaré to Simon
Feely available as HTML version Bounded Rationalityconventionscoordination problemdavid lewisdecision processHerbert Simonmental modelssocial identificationvalue system
Empowered by mediAm
Drawing upon developments in social epistemology, behavioral economics, social neuroscience, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science, network science and computational intelligence, this is a practical instantiation of knowledge transmission, liberality and emergent order. Today 95% of all motion picture content is viewed on a small or personal screen and it is being increasingly programmed,…
Jacques van Aalten’s painting of “Pops”
The wonderful Historical New Orleans Collection have posted this painting on their Facecrack page. Louis Armstrong is arguably the most famous New Orleans jazz musician of all time and he continues to inspire musicians and artists. His life and music will be celebrated at this weekend’s Satchmo Summerfest. This impressionistic painting by Jacques van Aalten, a…
New Herzog collection
Just released. An extravagance, I know, but if you don’t already have the DVDs this might be the way to go. cinemafilmphilosophical cinemaWerner Herzog
EPISTEME 11: 3
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A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 66
“I suspect that the parties you attend must be true visions of the apocalypse. I knew that our society was coming to this. In a few years, you and your friends will probably take over the country.” “Oh, we’re planning to,” the young man said with a bright smile. “We have connections in the highest…
Walker Percy and Peter Handke
One of the many pleasures of publishing with Farrar, Straus, Percy had learned over the years, was receiving copies of their newly published books. Percy usually found a few titles on each season’s list that strongly grabbed his attention, but one book on the fall 1974 list, a collection of two novellas and a memoir…
Secrets of the Creative Brain
This from The Atlantic BrainCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessCreativityIQKurt Vonnegutmental illnessmriNANCY ANDREASENneuronsneurosciencePhilosophy of mind
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