Well, this one came from left field. A novelized true story? One has to wonder what more can be said in addition to Cory MacLauchlin’s superb biography but I will withhold judgment until I’ve read it. Ironically, published by Simon and Shyster (Robert Gottlieb), the very publisher that made such heavy weather of Ken’s book.
. . . and a young publisher, Kent Carroll, who separately rescued the book, then published it with verve and devotion.
Wow! Quite a mouthful for a title. This paper covers a lot of ground that is of interest to me and cites several people with whom I’ve worked.
Instead, what I am going to suggest in the next pages is that collective intelligence phenomena can be explained, in many cases, by means of structures of emergent rules, ‘byproduct’ of the behaviour of those agents who pursue their individual and more limited objectives: it is not necessary to establish in advance all the rules of the game to get the development of cooperation or competition dynamics in a group.
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life.
To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
The movies are onto the search, but they screw it up. The search always ends in despair. They like to show a fellow coming to himself in a strange place — but what does he do? He takes up with the local librarian, sets about proving to the local children what a nice fellow he is, and settles down with a vengeance. In two weeks time he is so sunk in everydayness that he might just as well be dead.
A fascinating snappy intuition-testing piece from the genuinely versatile Marc Champagne, freely available here.
I do not want to argue against theism directly. I do want to argue, though, that the ‘mono’ portion of monotheism rests on nothing more than an aesthetic preference.
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Extract from chapter 11 — Christopher R. Harris
Message from the Louis Armstrong House Museum. The LAHM and the Armstrong archives at Queens are my two favourite stops whenever I’m in New York. Moreover, Michael hired the very excellent Ricky Riccardi.
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Extract from chapter 10 — Connie Eble
A snappy read on the sociology of scientific knowledge — as things stand now.
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