Here are two superb optical illusions to delight in – and no they are not animated gifs. The first is courtesy of Krandolf (check out the other groovy variations). The second image is courtesy of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. (Here are some more I found).
It seems that the notion of embodied cognition is seeing a spike in the release of new books – not to mention that the mainstream media has now picked up the idea. I’ve already mentioned the Boston Globe piece. I’ve since discovered that there is an NPR piece plugging the Blakeslees’ The Body Has a Mind of Its Own. Other recent similar titles…
I’ve agreed to review Brad Prager’s The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth for the Journal of Mind & Behavior. As an “art-form” film attracts, at best the juvenile mind, or at worst, the pseudo intellect: Herzog is an island of artistic authenticity and integrity in a sea of vulgarity and schlock. I’m pleased that there now exists a…
On my daily train commute into Boston I was asked by another regular commuter what book I was reading – I showed him Adams’ & Aizawa’s The Bounds of Cognition. After reading the dust jacket blurb he then gave a surprisingly detailed “man on the Clapham omnibus” account of what he took to be “the body…
Papineau’s TLS review of Searle’s Freedom and Neurobiology
Withdrawn from project I’m very pleased to have been asked by the editor of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science to be a participant in a forthcoming symposium on Owen Flanagan’s recently published The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World. The other participants are Greg Peterson (So. Dak. State); Ann Taves (UC Santa Barbara); Don Wiebe (Toronto) and, of…
Those following the recent McGinn-Honderich review kerfuffle might be interested to read Chomsky’s reticient but nonetheless combative contribution to a symposium on Margaret Boden’s Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science – see an earlier review by Harman. It begins . . . When I was asked to join a symposium on Margaret Boden’s history…
It is tiresome (and just downright false) for the Fundamentalist Right to claim that certain “alternative” lifestyles are incompatible with conservatism. In the first instance their grip on what conservatism is, is very weak and often at often at odds with the spirit of conservatism; and secondly, they do not appreciate that ideological categories are fluid and cannot…
I can now make available a full version of my review of Dennett. This version is still in MS form: if you want to cite the article, I will send you an off-print. You can drop me a line.
For us Chili heads or connoisseurs if you wish there are many sauces out there with novelty packaging designed to appeal to our habit. Unfortunately, however amusing as some of the marketing may be, most of these sauces tend to be very disappointing. Either they are too bland and watery – or they lack any…
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