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The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge
Through the topology of the network we have begun to perceive what Michel Serres calls ‘The World Object’, an ecology of interconnections and interactions that transcends and subsumes the causal links propounded by grapholectic culture. At the limits of s
The Civil Heretic - Freeman Dyson
Dyson is well aware that “most consider me wrong about global warming.” That educated Americans tend to agree with the conclusion about global warming reached earlier this month at the International Scientific Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen (“
The Next Great Discontinuity: Grapholectic Thought and the Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness
Of course my mini-history of scientific revolution should not be taken itself as a “truth”. I draw it as a parable of progress, as one silken thread leading back through time’s circular labyrinth to my very own Ariadne. What I do maintain though, is that
Science Cannot Fully Describe Reality, Says Templeton Prize Winner -- Lindley 2009 (316): 1 -- ScienceNOW
What is reality? French physicist Bernard d'Espagnat, 87, has spent a lifetime grappling with this question. Over the years, he has developed the idea that the reality revealed by science offers only a "veiled" view of an underlying reality that science c
Within Any Possible Universe, No Intellect Can Ever Know It All | Scientific American
Deep in the deluge of knowledge that poured forth from science in the 20th century were found ironclad limits on what we can know. Werner Heisenberg discovered that improved precision regarding, say, an object’s position inevitably degraded the level of c
Fallacy of misplaced concreteness | Wikipedia
In the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, one commits the fallacy of misplaced concreteness when one mistakes an abstract belief, opinion or concept about the way things are for a physical or 'concrete' reality.
Whitehead proposed the fallacy in a dis
Alan Watts - Wikipedia
Alan Wilson Watts (January 6, 1915 – November 16, 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, speaker, and student of comparative religion. He was best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Asian philosophies for a Western audience.
He wrote more than
Writing (Hyper)text and Image
A Polyptychal Discursion: This text, designed with its own concerns in mind, diverges on many trajectories, crossing over itself, intersecting its arguments and statements with images and forms which question the traditional logic of the essay. This text
What Makes the Human Mind?
During the past few decades, a mounting body of evidence has shown that animals possess a number of cognitive traits once thought to be uniquely human. Bees “talk” through complex dances and sounds; birds act as “social tutors,” teaching song repertoires
Books about the human brain | The Guardian
Half a century ago, passionate to study the brain, I began my graduate research in a gloomy, red-brick building in south-east London - the Maudsley Institute of Psychiatry. In the biochemistry department I was rapidly disabused of any idea that my researc
The great dictators - Last of the great books
Mortimer Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins thought they could preserve democracy by prescribing a heavy dose of culture for the common man. Matthew Price reads a wry new history of the Great Books.
A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious A
Edge: SELF AWARENESS: THE LAST FRONTIER By V.S. Ramachandran
One of the last remaining problems in science is the riddle of consciousness. The human brain—a mere lump of jelly inside your cranial vault—can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space and grapple with concepts such as zero and infinity. Even more
In Another city another me is writing
Take this article, for example. It is an unwinding spring of phonic sounds, encoded into a series of arbitrary symbols, stretching from left to right within an imaginary frame projected onto the surface of your computer screen. Here lies the perfect examp
The Archaeology of The Book
Before the printed book there was the book as relic, the book as idol to knowledge. Those who could read dictated to the masses who could not. Books were material conduits to hidden, immaterial territories, placed out of reach of the proletariat – atop th
Built on Facts : Experimental Consciousness
It's still not testable though, strictly speaking. Simulate a brain on a computer. Is it conscious? How about if you simulate it on an abacus? How about if you have a huge printed "choose your own adventure" book of neural states, it is conscious? Beats m
The Pharmakon
http://www.cobussen.com/proefschrift/200_deconstruction/220_undecidables/221_pharmakon/pharmakon.htm
Technology Doesn’t Dumb Us Down. It Frees Our Minds
EVERYONE has been talking about an article in The Atlantic magazine called “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Some subset of that group has actually read the 4,175-word article, by Nicholas Carr.
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The phenomenology of text | Ask Metafilter
The phenomenology / ontology of text: has anyone examined this issue directly in philosophical, literary and/or critical terms?
I am interested in the experience and perception of text, both within readership and on an abstract (more holistic level perhap
What's wrong with science as religion | Salon
PZ Myers is a true believer, a science crusader with the singled-minded enthusiasm of a televangelist. A biologist at the University of Minnesota at Morris and a columnist for Seed magazine, Myers has earned notoriety with his blog, Pharyngula, in which h
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