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19 Jun 07

pageaddict

  • Who wrote pageaddict?


    We are two neuroscientists living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Without directly working on it,
    we are fascinated by the question of how a voluntary action becomes compulsive.

07 Jun 07

Science Musings Blog - Starting at square one -- Part 2

  • In addition to the "naive physics" and "naive psychology" of children, the authors offer another reason for adult resistance to science: the authority that people ascribe to sources of information.
06 Mar 07

Radical Torah » Blog Archive » Purim and the Jewish Id

  • It feels odd to have to write these words, but here goes: don’t take the Book of Esther so seriously. It’s a wacked-out tale for a wacked-out holiday. On this one cathartic day, we allow ourselves to live in a topsy-turvy world, in which up is down, blessing is curse, and victim is victor. Megillat Esther is at its core a collective Jewish revenge fantasy in which every imaginable power dynamic (male/female, Gentile/Jew, Oppressor/Oppressed) is joyfully subverted. Purim gives us the chance to let our “Jewish Id” run amok - to indulge our darker fantasies in this one cathartic moment, perhaps so that they might have less of a hold over us during the rest of the year.
29 Jul 06

Savage Minds: Economists and anthropologists on video game violence

  • Anthropology is based on a belief that perception is under-determined by reality—that the qualia of experience are open to many possible interpretations and do not impose one on all people. We humans use arbitrary and conventional structures of meaning—‘culture’—to make sense of them. So while economists are interested in examining the veracity of Carnagey et. al.’s beliefs, anthropologists are interested in ‘motivating’ (as they say in structuralism and method acting) the scientist’s beliefs—that is to say, understanding how they are a particular instantiation of the broader cultural context that produced the scientists in question.
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