Bbenzon
Description
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.
MY BLOGS
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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 ( 7356 )
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Very Young Children in Japan: “Old Enough” and “Kimono Mom” [Media Notes 81]
Two things here, both from Japan: Old Enough, a new Netflix series based on a series of short vignettes originally filmed in Japan between 1988 and 1994, and... Read more
Posted on 09 November 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Really? Green and Purple
Posted on 09 November 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Awakening to the Meaning Crisis – An Interesting Conversation
0:00 Signs of the so-called “meaning crisis” 3:50 How John addresses the meaning crisis in his own life 10:04 Bob gets empathy-circled—live! 18:48 How much of... Read more
Posted on 09 November 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Andy Warhol Diaries [Media Notes 80]
I was certainly away of Any Warhol, the soup cans, the Factory, being shot, Interview magazine, Studio 54, and so forth. I particularly remember a short... Read more
Posted on 29 October 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Distribution of Neurotransmitters in the Brain
Mapping neurotransmitter systems to the structural and functional organization of the human neocortex | https://t.co/CLp1wYHP35Led by @JustineYHansen out now... Read more
Posted on 28 October 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Sadness is on the Rise Across the Globe
The Rising Tide of Global Sadness https://t.co/7gLr5rX8gR— Bill Benzon, BAM! Bootstrapping Artificial Minds (@bbenzon) October 28, 2022 From the article: The... Read more
Posted on 28 October 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
What's That Triangular Building?
Posted on 26 October 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Why Imagine Future Dystopias Rather Than Utopias? [Rogue-AI]
In a typical Black Mirror episode:• An improvement plausibly on the horizon is imagined.• It happens.• Everything goes horribly wrong. Read more
Posted on 26 October 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
An Interesting Discussion of the Implications of Anarchy in Outer Space
Nonzero: Is Outer Space the New Wild West? | (Robert Wright Douglas Ligor) There are 10s of thousands of chunks of space debris in low earth orbit as the... Read more
Posted on 26 October 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Is This How Putin Thinks About Using Nukes?
Douglas London, Addressing Putin’s Nuclear Threat: Thinking Like the Cold War KGB Officer That He Was, Just Security, October 18, 2022: From the article: As a... Read more
Posted on 22 October 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Under the 14th St. Viaduct
Posted on 20 October 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Interpersonal Synch is Stronger Face-to-face Than in Video Chat
Face-to-face interaction elicits more inter-brain synchronization than video-chat interaction. Moreover, associations with behavior emerge only during f2f... Read more
Posted on 19 October 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
5 Propositions About Art from a 7-year Old
I’m writing my book ‘Children are artists’ based on my PhD. This is one of my favourite quotes from a child, 7 years and full of wisdom. pic.twitter. Read more
Posted on 18 October 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friendship Between a [toy] Gorilla and a Frog
Posted on 12 October 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Chimps and Gorillas Can Be Friends
Interspecific interactions between sympatric apes https://t.co/B69OqvG4U6— Bill Benzon, BAM! Bootstrapping Artificial Minds (@bbenzon) October 12, 2022... Read more
Posted on 12 October 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Cultural Evolution of Emotion
Nature reviews psychologyThe cultural evolution of emotionhttps://t.co/kiGsu673UV— CLaE (@leafs_s) October 8, 2022 The abstract of the linked article:... Read more
Posted on 09 October 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Tree Trunks and Greens
Posted on 08 October 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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AI-Doom – Just Who is a Cargo Cult?
I spotted this post on LessWrong two months ago, jam-mosig, Paper reading as a Cargo Cult. It was the presence of the word “cult” in the title that caught my... Read more
Posted on 05 October 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Active Matter
"I consider the Organism, or natural Machine, a machine in which each part is a machine."- #Leibniz🦠 Energy → Work"Active matter *employs* control... Read more
Posted on 05 October 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Linearly Mapping from Image to Text Space
abs: https://t.co/ZyItiCfj0l pic.twitter.com/tWfKeovBVc— AK (@_akhaliq) October 3, 2022 The paper's conclusion: In this paper, we test the extent to which the... Read more
Posted on 04 October 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
