We do correspond quite regularly, the usual theme of Myrna’s correspondence tending to urge me to participate in lie-ins and wade-ins and sit-ins and such. Since, however, I do not eat at lunch counters and do not swim, I have ignored her advice. The subsidiary theme in the correspondence is one urging me to come…
This from the latest issue of Neuroethics December 2013, Volume 6, Issue 3, pp. 593-605. Andy ClarkArtificial intelligenceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessDavid Chalmersdistributed knowledgeEmbodied cognitionExtended MindExternalismNeuroethicsPhilosophy of mindsituated cognition
One day late (an oversight). Anyway, here is news of an “autobiography” that has recently been released. jimi hendrixmusic
Michael Jackson (no, not that one!) on, to my mind, the greatest brewery of all — my #1 brew of all-time being the Rochefort 10. My tasting notes made the beers sound like foods, and Father Antoine reminded me that they once were. The Trappists still do not eat meat, but once also ruled out fish…
This from Sean Brock, The Mind of a Chef. catfishfoodnew orleanssean brockThe Mind of a Chef
Those of you who know me will know that I’m partial to the writer but with all the objectivity I can muster I have to say that this book is superbly conceived and executed — I know what good writing is. The style is extremely precise and the dialogue authentically rendered in the language of…
She had chiseled quite a bit of money from her father to go away to college to see what it was like “out there.” Unfortunately she found me. The trauma of our first meeting fed each other’s masochism and led to an affair (platonic) of sorts. (Myrna was decidedly masochistic. She was only happy when…
Here is yet another recent EMT or HEC book that I chanced upon. Andy ClarkCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessDavid Chalmersdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeEmbodied cognitionExtended MindExternalismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindqualiasituated cognition
Here’s a compilation of some of my favourite WH quotes. He’s THE man so long as he doesn’t have silly Hollywood money at his disposal which somehow strips his work of any authenticity that makes him the genius that he is — cases in point The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans and Rescue Dawn.…
Here is the inaugural issue if Cosmos + Taxis Austrian Economicscomplexitycomplexity studiescosmos & taxisdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeemergent orderHayekphilosophy of social sciencesituated cognitionSocially distributed cognitionSpontaneous order
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