August 2010
32 posts
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“Our sense of time is deeply entangled with memory
“If our’ sense of time is...”
– Jonah Lehrer, In Search of Time, Wired Science, August 30, 2010
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“ “Everything is what it is because it got that way.” ”
– D’Arcy Thompson, On Growth and Form (1917)
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“ “In the distant future I see open fields for far more important...”
– Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859), cited in Brian Boyd, On The Origin of Stories. Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009, p. 13.
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“Tim Lewens on why some ideas are more likely to spread than others
“One...”
– Tim Lewens, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, cited in William L. Benzon, Cultural Evolution: A Vehicle for Cooperative Interaction Between the Sciences and the Humanities, On the Human, July 1, 2010
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“David Dalrymple on the Internet
“Before the Internet, most professional...”
– David Dalrymple, Knowledge is out, focus is in, and people are everywhere, Edge 2009
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“Anthony Clifford Grayling on what brain research is doing for philosophy ...”
– Anthony Clifford Grayling, Ideas of the century: Neurophilosophy (19/50), TPM: The Philosophers’ Magazine, Aug 25, 2010 (tnx wildcat2030)
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“ “The large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in...”
– Donald Hebb, 1958, Canadian psychologist who was influential in the area of neuropsychology, where he sought to understand how the function of neurons contributed to psychological processes such as learning. He has been described as the father of neuropsychology and neural networks (1904-1985).
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“John Haugeland on mind
“If we are to understand mind as the locus of...”
– John Haugeland cited in Andy Clark, Supersizing The Mind, Oxford University Press 2008, p. 27.
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“Carl Jung on collective unconscious
“In addition to our immediate...”
– Carl Jung, Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
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“ “Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is...”
– Roland Barthes, French literary theorist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician (1915-1980)
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“ “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that...”
– Albert Camus, French Algerian author, philosopher and journalist (1913-1960)
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“ “People like us who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past,...”
– Albert Einstein , via Leonardo Vintini, Is Time an Illusion? (pdf), Beyond Science, The Epoch Times, March 9, 2010
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“The modern individual is everywhere at once
“In the modern world we...”
– Wildcat, The Future History of Individualism Pt1, Aug 2010.
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“Antonio Damasio on consciousness
“All the natural history required to...”
– Antonio Damasio, The Brain: A Story We Tell Ourselves, TIME, Jan. 18, 2007
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“ “It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree...”
– Aristotle, cited in John A. Adam, Mathematics in nature: modeling patterns in the natural world, Princeton University Press, 2003, p.17.
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“ “We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce...”
– Roger Penrose, The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe, See also The Concept of Laws. The special status of the laws of mathematics and physics
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“ “There are some, King Gelon, who think that the number of the sands is infinite...”
– Archimedes, The Sand Reckoner
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“ “Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme...”
– Bertrand Russell, Study of Mathematics, cited in Eugene Wigner, The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences, reprinted from Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 13, No. I (February 1960). New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Copyright © 1960 by John Wiley...
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“ “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.” ”
– Carl Sagan, Cosmos documentary
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“R. Mirman on mathematics and the Laws of Nature
“Mathematics – our...”
– R. Mirman, Our Almost Impossible Universe: Why the Laws of Nature Make the Existence of Humans Extraordinarily Unlikely, iUniverse, 2006
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“ “Since the Renaissance mathematicians have been concerned with the laws...”
– John Tabak, Mathematics and the Laws of Nature. Developing the Language of Science , Facts On File, Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, 2004, p. 153. See also The Concept of Laws. The special status of the laws of mathematics and physics
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“ “For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always...”
– David Hume, 1739 cited in Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained, Back Bay Books, Little Brown & Company, 1991, p. 412
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“ “Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit,...”
– Albert Einstein cited in Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, A Mariner Book, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008, p. 241
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“Daniel Dennett on consciousness
“There is no single, definitive “stream...”
– Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained, Back Bay Books, Little Brown & Company, 1991 p. 253-254, 210.
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“ “We have the sense of actuality when every question asked of our visual system...”
– Marvin Minsky, 1985 cited in Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained, Back Bay Books, Little Brown & Company, 1991, p. 359
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“ “I’m really not sure if others fail to perceive me or if, one fraction of a...”
– Ariel Dorfman, Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist, Mascara, Seven Stories Press, 2004, p. 45.
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“ “Hands and feet, apparatus and appliances of all kinds are as much a part of it...”
– John Dewey, Essays in Experimental Logic cited in Andy Clark, Supersizing The Mind, Oxford University Press 2008, p. 8
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“ “From this point of view, cognition depends on the kinds of experiences...”
– Esther Thelen cited in Andy Clark, Supersizing The Mind, Oxford University Press 2008, p. 26.
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“ “Our brains are (by nature) unusually plastic; their biologically proper...”
– Andy Clark in The new humanists: science at the Edge
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“ “If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are...”
– Joe Rogan, American comedian
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“David Deutsch on knowledge as crafted self-similarity
“Reality contains...”
– David Deutsch in The Fabric of Reality: the science of parallel universes – and its implications, New York: Allen Lane, 1997, p. 95, cited in Entersection
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“Humberto Maturana on the language’s implications for human existence...”
– Humberto Maturana cited in The Biological Foundations of Virtual Realities and their Implications for Human existence (tnx jamreilly) 