Bbenzon
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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 ( 7356 )
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Diverse Flowers
Posted on 08 August 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Thirteen Lives [Media Notes 78]
I recently watched Ron Howard’s Thirteen Lives (2022), based on the survival and rescue 12 boys and their coach from Than Luang cave in Thailand during the... Read more
Posted on 08 August 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Fake News Doesn't Create Echo Chambers; Rather, Some Consumers Choose to Close...
Zhang, Jiding and Moon, Ken and Veeraraghavan, Senthil K., Does Fake News Create Echo Chambers? (June 23, 2022). Available at SSRN:... Read more
Posted on 08 August 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Fools Rush In.... We're About Six Insights Away from AGI, Says John Carmack [&...
Lex Friedmand interviews John Carmack. At about 1:50 Carmack says: I am not a madman for saying that it is likely that the code for artificial general... Read more
Posted on 08 August 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Along Weehawken Cove
Posted on 07 August 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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AGI as Shibboleth, Symbols [reacting to Jack Clark]
Jack Clark has a LONG tweet stream on AI policy. Though I don’t agree with every tweet – would anyone? – it’s worth at least a quick look. I want to comment on... Read more
Posted on 07 August 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Spot the Empire State Building
Posted on 06 August 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Liszt, Childhood, and Improvisation
I’ve been reading a fascinating book about improvisation in 19th century classical music, Dana Gooley, Fantasies of Improvisation: Free Playing in... Read more
Posted on 06 August 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Neuroscience of Memory: Papez, the Hippocampus, and Beyond
Highlights• Why it is time for the concept of Papez circuit to be retired• The anterior thalamic nuclei and hippocampus conjointly support episodic... Read more
Posted on 06 August 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Night Light
Posted on 05 August 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Persuasion, Clueless [Media Notes 77] {mediated Desire}
I’ve just watched the recent movie adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion and Clueless, which is a loose adaptation of Austen’s Emma. Read more
Posted on 05 August 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
High Wire Act [Hoboken]
Posted on 04 August 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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From My Notes: Religion and Music in America
References: Ann Taves, Fits, Trances, Visions, Princeton UP, 1999. Richard Crawford, America’s Musical Life, WW Norton, 2001. Read more
Posted on 04 August 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Christmas Exotica [Longwodd Gardens]
Posted on 03 August 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Structured Physical System Hypothesis (SPSH), Polyviscous Connectivity [The Brai...
Over in the discussion of Yann LeCun’s recent paper (A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence), Saty Chary has been arguing for something he calls the... Read more
Posted on 03 August 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Graffiti in the Shadows
Posted on 02 August 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
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A Song Is Born: Some Fine all-American Musical Hokum from 1948
From A Song is Born (1948) starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo, and directed by Howard Hawks and a bunch of superb swing musicians. Read more
Posted on 02 August 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
On the Problem of Punishing Corporations [no Law Worth Spit, No Justice]
A really interesting discussion with Will Thomas, Uinversity of Michigan Ross School of Business, about the problem of punishing corporations. This raises... Read more
Posted on 01 August 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Mystery Markings in Hoboken [tag Up]
Posted on 01 August 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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On the Stupidity of Democratic Organizers [fewer Emails, More Retail Politics]
Lara Putnam and Micah L. Sifry, Fed Up With Democratic Emails? You’re Not the Only One. NYTimes, August 1, 2022. National Democratic and progressive groups... Read more
Posted on 01 August 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
