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Baron Corvo aka Fr. Rolfe
Born on this date. If you appreciate the anarchic A Confederacy of Dunces you may well enjoy Rolfe’s super funny and outrageous novel Hadrian the Seventh. A classic in its own right is A. J. A. Symons’ biography of Rolfe, The Quest For Corvo. Below: Alec McCowen as Hadrian the Seventh, Mermaid Theatre, April 1968 winning his…
Herb Simon and Wim Wenders
Here’s an interesting discussion paper that caught my eye. I couldn’t resist a title with Simon and most improbably, Wenders, in it. Ethics is then also involved. As Wenders emphasised, freedom is at risk when the capacity of self-reflection and self-elaboration becomes weaker: when humans are not autonomous in their capacity of thinking and deciding…
There is no general AI: Why Turing machines cannot pass the Turing test
The very excellent Barry Smith has coauthored this recent open access piece. AIAlan TuringArtificial intelligenceBarry Smithphilosophical humorPhilosophy of mindTuring test
Greek Writers and Philosophers in Philo and Josephus
A recently published work that I’ve only just come across. ancient historyhellenismjosephusJudaismphilo of alexandria
Adam Smith and French Political Economy: Parallels and Differences
As is well known, Adam Smith spent about two years in Europe, most of it in France. It was in fact during his stay in Toulouse that he began to work on what became The Wealth of Nations (WN); but what proved decisive for the deepening of his understanding of market processes were his encounters…
Alan Turing on Fifty Quid Note
Excellent choice! Alan Turingcomputational intelligencePhilosophy of mindTuring machineTuring test
Song of the Sausage Creature
or a “crotch rocket” as I’d call them. Here’s Hunter S. Thompson opining on the matter (H/T Richie said). Only last night I was watching vids of the Ducati 1299 Panigale. Dope! ducatiHunter S. Thompsonmotorcycle
Management Occultancy
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Stigmergic behaviour and nodal places in residential areas: Case of post-socialist city Kharkiv in Ukraine
Here’s a recent paper citing Francis Heylighen who featured heavily in Ted and my Special Issue of Cognitive Systems Research – Human-Human Stigmergy. Chris and I, though, did mention in passing urban sprawl as a prominent instance of stigmergy twelve years ago. stigmergy opens broader possibilities for analysis of the development of the city, its networks and…
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