[Steve’s note: I reserve the right to be completely wrong in my interpretation of religious texts. And that’s more than you’ll get from most folks, huh?] When I […]
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Duality Is One
The fundamental mistake is pretending that there is a nature and nurture duality. There is no physical and emotional; there simply is. The interplay between neurons, the beginnings […]
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The Thinking Person's Guide to Fighting Zombies
It’s simple: You think in order to fight zombies. Philosophical zombies, perhaps, but zombies nonetheless. I first learned about philosophical zombies from Peter Watts’ blog (Law of Internet […]
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Expand your mind…
One of the more interesting things about Mead’s concept of mind is that it suddenly makes true artificial intelligence a lot more feasible… or at least, possible. In […]
philosophy / politics / sociology
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Bipartisanship means nothing left to lose…
If you take some time to consider the TED talk I linked to yesterday (link to talk, not my post)], it should be pretty obvious that no group […]
philosophy / sociology
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Your Burger Is Conscious. Yum.
I’ve been mainlining G.H. Mead lately (because balancing school assignments doesn’t seem to be my forté this term), which is an … interesting experience. One of the things […]