New Scientist The Economist The Telegraph The Independent . . . and the original Chalmers paper. brain scienceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessDavid ChalmersneurosciencePatricia Churchlandphilosophical literaturephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindqualiathe hard problemthomas nagel
“You’re kneeling on Rex’s grave!” Ignatius shouted. “Now tell me what you and that debauched McCarthyite have been doing? You probably belong to some secret political cell. No wonder I’ve been bombarded with those witch hunt pamphlets. No wonder I was trailed last night. Where is that Battaglia matchmaker. Where is she? She must be…
Typically each Wednesday I have been posting The Moviegoer quotes and extracts. It dawned upon me the significance of the day (WP fans will know what I’m referring to). So from now on all the WP quotes and extracts will be posted under the rubric of WP Wednesday. A good rotation. A rotation I define…
That woman had a devious mind that was only predictable when she scented an opportunity to vanquish her husband. . . . Because it was Saturday, Levy Pants had ceased its assaults upon the concept of free enterprise for the weekend. . . . “You’re kneeling on Rex’s grave!” Ignatius shouted. “Now tell me what…
Sometimes when she mentions God, it strikes me that my mother uses him as but one of the devices that come to hand in an outrageous man’s world, to be put to work like all the rest in the one enterprise she has any use for: the canny management of the shocks of life. It…
“That fat freak a guarantee one hunner percen nucular bum. Shit. Drop him on somebody, everybody gettin caught in the fallout, get tin their ass blowed up. Ooo-wee. Night of Joy really turn into a zoo las night. Firs we get a bird, then the fat mother come draggin along, then three cats look like…
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Yet loves revives as we spin homewards along the coast through the early evening. Joy and sadness come by turns, I know now. Beauty and bravery make you sad, Sharon’s beauty and my aunt’s bravery, and victory breaks your heart. But life goes on and on we go, spinning along the coast in a violet…
Pinker in The Atlantic. (H/T to Shannon Selin) Worse still, we humans are the last to notice our own limited nature. In seven words, Shakespeare sums up a good portion of the findings of modern psychology: “most ignorant of what he’s most assured.” A recurring discovery of social and cognitive psychology is that human beings…
“Oh, my God! You’re wearing your bowling shoes,” Ignatius cast a pink and blue and yellow eye over the side of the bed down past his mother’s hanging slip and drooping cotton stockings. “Only you would wear bowling shoes to your child’s sick bed.” But his mother did not rise to the challenge. She had…
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