Bbenzon
Humankind got its start on the African savannas some hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years ago. At various times in our cultural history we’ve moved to distinctly new cultural ground, as it were. And so we are moving now, and have been for the past half century. This blog is how I see that move. Intellectually, I'm broadly interested in culture and the brain. Within that compass, anything could show up here. Literature and films (including animation), certainly, music as well, and graffiti. But, other things may show up as well. It's a blog, don't you know, it moves.
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New Savanna
http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/
Humankind got its start on the African savannas some hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years ago. At various times in our cultural history we’ve moved to distinctly new cultural ground, as it were. And so we are moving now, and have been for the past half century. This blog is how I see that move. I'm broadly interested in culture and the brain. Within that compass, anything could show up here. Literature and films (including animation), certainly, music as well, and graffiti. But, other things may show up as well. It's a blog, don't you know, it moves.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 6443 )
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I Think I Need to Slip Some Flowers in Here
Posted on 17 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Scaling: Fear Not Big Numbers [Disney’s Fantasia Scaled the Cosmos to Two Hours]
Aiyana Green and Steven Strogatz, Who’s Afraid of Big Numbers, NYTimes, June 17, 2021. ... vast sums of money become more comprehensible if they are reframed... Read more
Posted on 17 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
New York Celebrates Lifting of COVID Restrictions with Fireworks, but It Wasn't...
Posted on 16 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
How Symbolic AI Helped Us Transcend the Word Illusion
By “symbolic AI” I mean the research done from roughly the beginnings of AI in the mid-1950s though the 1970s and into the 1980s. In particular, I mean the... Read more
Posted on 15 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
I Feel a Quickening in the Force [the Times They Are a Changing]
3. AI and neuroscience have begun a dialog to their mutual benefit. 4. @Noahpinion decides to think about how to regulate and legitimate graffiti. Read more
Posted on 15 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Hey, Kids! I Have an Idea. Let People Vote on What Graffiti Stays Up. They Can...
Actually, I have a friend who was a graffiti artist in Japan, then got arrested for illegally painting on stuff. It made him famous, and now his wall art is in... Read more
Posted on 14 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Brain-inspired AI and AI-inspired Neuroscience
I've now turned this into a PDF file which you can download here: https://www.academia.edu/37815917/Mind-Culture_Coevolution_Major_Trans... In the early 1970s... Read more
Posted on 14 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Speculative Engineering as Philosophy [Models of the Mind]
I am in the process of preparing a working paper based on my review of Grace Lindsey’s recent book, Models of the Mind. This is draft material that will go in... Read more
Posted on 14 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Lighting FX [photons r Us]
Posted on 14 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Rodriguez – Cold Fact [annals of Over-looked Genius]
From Wikipedia: Cold Fact is the debut album from American singer-songwriter Rodriguez. It was released in the United States on the Sussex label in March 1970. Read more
Posted on 14 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
A Bird in the Distance, Two Lamps, the Beclouded Sun
Posted on 13 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Ramble, June 13, 2021: Progress, AI [rolling Thunder | Media Notes 60]
Progress Studies At the moment progress studies has two aspects: 1) Education: Making people aware that humankind has indeed made progress over the years,... Read more
Posted on 13 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Follow Me: from Spain, to America, to Greece, and Japan [will Elon Put It on...
It started out as the Adagio to Rodrigo’s Concerto de Aranjuez: Miles Davis recorded it on his Sketches of Spain album (this is from a live performance at... Read more
Posted on 13 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
How Many Types of 'intelligence'?
1. That there are many different types of problems and their solutions require different types of intelligence.2. That human intelligence is not good at... Read more
Posted on 13 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Hannibal Lokumbe: "The Most Sacred Place I've Ever Heard Music Performed in is...
New Music USA 2.85K subscribers Frank J. Oteri's conversation with composer/trumpeter/raconteur/poet/community activist/force of nature Hannibal Lokumbe is a... Read more
Posted on 13 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Wikipedia Articles as Literature Review [the Old Academy is Dying]
The secret heart of academia is... Wikipedia.In an experiment, this paper found that a single quality Wikipedia article written by chemistry experts influenced... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
More from the Jersey City Mural Festival
Posted on 12 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Song of Israel Kamakawino'ole [stealth Hit from out of Nowhere]
I'm bumping this to the top of the queue on general principle. Also, it's great music. * * * * * One of my Facebook friends just linked to a YouTube video of... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Complete Conversation, Brother Cornel West and Brother Glenn Loury
Bloggingheads.tv 56.9K subscribers Support the Glenn Show on Substack: www.glennloury.substack.com 0:00 Teodros's new book, Conversations with Cornel West 1:04... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Yesterday, While the Moon Danced with the Sun in the Early Morning...
Posted on 11 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY