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.
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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10-fold Expansion of Interneuron-to-interneuron Networks in the Human Brain...
What makes us human, at the neuronal network level? We discovered a dramatic (10-fold) expansion of interneuron-to-interneuron networks in the human brain... Read more
Posted on 26 June 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
“Goodbye Pork Pie Hat”, Old Style, New Style
This is one of my favorite tunes, ever. Don’t even know if I recognized it as a blues when I first heard it. Do you? Don’t count it out, no fair! Read more
Posted on 25 June 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos (on Saturday): Friday's Trip to Grand Central Station
Posted on 25 June 2022
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Heather Cox Richardson on the Current Republican Party & Its Vision of Rule by...
Heather Cox Richardson, June 24, 2022, Letters from an American. Reflecting on 2 things: At yesterday’s hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate... Read more
Posted on 25 June 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
How Can We Trust Artificial Agents If Big Tech Wants to Fool Us into Believing...
And while we're here, more evidence of how Silicon Valley has entirely missed the point of speculative fiction. pic.twitter.com/JJ66zOPAAp— Emily M. Read more
Posted on 23 June 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Not an Atom Bomb Blast [just the Sun]
Posted on 23 June 2022
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The Two Voices of Scott Alexander on Rogue AI
Back at the end of February, Tyler Cowen had a post entitled, “Are nuclear weapons or Rogue AI the more dangerous risk?” He linked to a long Scott Alexander... Read more
Posted on 23 June 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Yellow, White, Red
Posted on 22 June 2022
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Some Post-Publication Thoughts on the RNA Primer [Design for a Mind]
I’m talking about: Relational Nets Over Attractors, A Primer: Part 1, Design for a Mind,... Read more
Posted on 22 June 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Latour's Modes of Existence
I'm bouncing this from 30 May 2012 to the top of the queue because the subject came up today in the Twitterverse, more or less. LSD should be legal, but IMO man... Read more
Posted on 22 June 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Transition Zone [Hoboken, NJ]
Posted on 21 June 2022
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Welcome to the Fourth Arena @3QD
That’s my latest article at 3 Quarks Daily: Welcome to the Fourth Arena – The World is Gifted,... Read more
Posted on 21 June 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Relational Nets Over Attractors, A Primer: Part 1, Design for a Mind
New working paper. Title above, links, abstract, table of contents, preface, and appendix below. Academia.edu: https://www.academia. Read more
Posted on 20 June 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Red and White
Posted on 20 June 2022
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Discrete Word Forms Float on a Sea of Continuous Meaning
That it words suggests that 'beneath' those discrete word forms we have a continuous (multidimensional) field of semanticity, if you will. The semantic... Read more
Posted on 20 June 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
On the Practical Business of Intimate Intellectual Collaboration, Getting...
Mordechai Rorvig, The Computer Scientist Who Parlays Failures Into Breakthroughs, Quanta Magazine, June 13, 2022: Why do you think your collaborations with... Read more
Posted on 19 June 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Some Shots of Yesterday's Sunrise
Posted on 19 June 2022
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Hyperviscosity and Bathtub Philosophy [complex Neural Dynamics, Really]
This was originally published 11.30.12, but I'm bumping it to the top of the queue because I'm thinking about the general idea of the fluid mind. Here's a... Read more
Posted on 19 June 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Miles and John Lennon – a Meeting of Titans
From Reddit Read more
Posted on 19 June 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Anything Beyond the Higgs? Is Collider Physics Over?
Adrian Cho, Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare of finding nothing else, Science, 13 June 2022. Before the 27-kilometer-long ring-shaped LH... Read more
Posted on 19 June 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
