Mind Hacks on how gut feelings and reactions can be the “unrecognised basis of moral judgements and social customs”ĭavid Harvey, RSA Animate – Crises of CapitalismĪn animated Marxist perspective! The graphical animation alone is worth it, but Harvey’s analysis is as illustrative as the drawings.Įd Yong, Genes and Culture: OXTR Gene Influences Social Behaviour Differently in Americans and Koreans
Vaughan Bell, A Gut Reaction to Moral Transgressions The program is the ontogeny of the organism, which is an emergent property of interactions between the regulatory components of the genome and the environment, which uses that data to build species-specific properties of the organism. The genome is not the program it’s the data. To simplify it so a computer science guy can get it, Kurzweil has everything completely wrong. Pharyngula takes the computer guru to task for claiming he’ll be able to reverse engineer the brain in a decade. PZ Myers, Ray Kurzweil Does Not Understand the Brain
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In this article (pdf), critiques of rationalist, analytic, and postmodern approaches while talking about how to do synthesis. Paul Thagard, Why Cognitive Science Needs Philosophy and Vice VersaĬognitive science and philosophy NEED each other. Melody Dye, A Thinking Machine: On Metaphors of the MindĪre we pre-programmed spreadsheets or search algorithms? Metaphors matter, because they can dictate our assumptions. Uh oh, my sons have reprogrammed me! Must be why I love playing video games with them… (Not sure my wife will buy that…) Very nice piece on neural plasticity, development, and father-son relationships over at Scientific American So thanks to her!īrian Mossop, The Brains of Our Fathers: Does Parenting Rewire Dads? I had a lot of help from my new graduate assistant Ethel Saryee in putting this round up together. Cannabis and the Last Word, a poem this time, finish it off. After that some health, some anthropology, some cognition, some A. This week I’ve done my favs, then an excellent selection on culture and cognition. Find out what he had to say about the shot over at Neatorama. I found this apropos photo, a Cuban tree frog photographed by James Snyder in southern Florida, and originally featured on National Geographic’s Daily Dozen. I walked down the driveway, looked at the other neighbors’ trash, and still I smiled. The stars gleamed hazy through the trees, and the two dogs sniffed their way around the yard. Drops of rain fell in the trees, Tampa’s humidity condensed amid leaves and branches. I took the dogs outside this morning, and the air turned liquid.
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