This from Ricky Riccardi’s excellent blog. Even with his frustrations over the treatment of his people, Armstrong remained a proud American and one of the country’s greatest cultural ambassadors. In 1959, Armstrong was asked about his title of “Ambassador of Goodwill,” Armstrong told a German reporter, “I’m an American first of all. And I don’t…
Here is Searle, still the master performer after all these years. He hasn’t dimmed an iota since I saw him in London in 1989. Artificial intelligenceChinese RoomCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessdualismEmbodied cognitionExtended Mindneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindqualiasearle
This from the Miami Herald. Kelly was known to every seventies kid who was into the martial arts. A formidable athlete and dignified persona. enter the dragonjim kellymartial arts
Saundra Green’s NOLA cooking classes. “We don’t count carbs and we don’t count calories,” Green jokes. “If we know we are going to be really bad, we just double up on the Lipitor.” She can’t resist adding that her grand-mère (grandmother) ate bacon fat every day of her life and lived to be 102. This…
It is with sadness that I report the death of my chum Ken Minogue. It was only two months ago that I got him out to New York for a conference in which he performed brilliantly. Just two weeks ago we had corresponded and as usual Ken always ready to extend kindness and generosity. I…
Confirmation of the Plant man’s Louisiana music credibility. As I’ve said all along, Plant is the only superstar from the 60s that never stood still. His music is deeper and richer than ever. More than anywhere, I know where I’d like to be on July 17th. Also check out Li’l Band O’Gold latest and the Fats…
But the criteria at Levy Pants were very low. Promptness was sufficient excuse for promotion (p. 56). a confederacy of duncesJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleans
Last August I chanced upon a forthcoming book by István Aranyosi. I’m pleased to say that my copy arrived today and I’m very much looking forward to reading it. Any book that opens with a Kafka quote suggests immaculate taste. Not only that, but the series of which this book is a part is edited than…
Here is the intro to Leonard’s article. Some say that the mind is extended. I’d say that the current debate about one important interpretation of this view focuses on an overly narrow topic, whether cognition is extended. (‘Extended’ means extended beyond the ordinary physical body boundary.) All agree, though, that what will here be called fognition…
Robert Lecusay, Lars Rossen, and Michael Cole’s intro: The absence of context and culture from the early history of the cognitive sciences was, according to Gardner (1987), the result of a general attempt by cognitive scientists to “factor out these elements to the maximum extent possible,” (p. 41). The traditional vision of cognition framed human…
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