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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What a View! Those Apartments Face New York City.
Posted on 03 June 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Greedflation: Does Economics Need a Reset, Reboot, and Rethink?
Lydia DePillis, Is ‘Greedflation’ Rewriting Economics, or Do Old Rules Still Apply? NYTimes, June 3, 2022. Since prices started to escalate a year ago,... Read more
Posted on 03 June 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Roses in the Jersey City Heights
Posted on 02 June 2022
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PHILOSOPHY,
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The Fourth Arena: What’s Up in the World These Days? We’re Moving to a New, a Ne...
About ten years of so ago I discovered object-oriented ontology (OOO) and Bruno Latour. That plunged me into a philosophy period during which I ended up taking ... Read more
Posted on 02 June 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Living with Abundance in a Pluralist Cosmos: Some Metaphysical Sketches
Bumping to the top to mark the profusion of creativity pouring out of machine learning and deep learning. We're heading into the 4th Arena! Read more
Posted on 01 June 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Map of Cortical Activation While Reading Aloud
Now available at #JNeurosci @SfNJournals “A spatiotemporal map of reading aloud” We mapped the spread of activity across the brain while reading aloud known... Read more
Posted on 01 June 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
A Weak Shadow of Early Life Language Processing Persists in the Right Hemisphere
of the Mature Brain | by Kelly C. Martin, Elissa L. Newport colleagues | https://t.co/Ss5z3NRLbA pic.twitter.com/faDxDT5roT— Neurobiology of Language... Read more
Posted on 01 June 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Some Traffic Lights from Yesterday's Walk
Posted on 01 June 2022
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PHILOSOPHY,
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Interesting Interview with Geoffrey Hinton
The Robot Brains Podcast Season 2 Ep 22 Geoff Hinton on revolutionizing artificial intelligence... again 240 views Jun 1, 2022 Over the past ten years, AI has... Read more
Posted on 01 June 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Two Views of the Empire State Building in the Distance
Posted on 01 June 2022
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PHILOSOPHY,
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Miriam Yevick on Why Both Symbols and Networks Are Necessary for Artificial Minds
Miriam Yevick was a mathematician who corresponded with physicist David Bohm in the 1950s and went on to publish a very interesting article on the formal... Read more
Posted on 01 June 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Gary Marcus Has Raised a $350K Bet Against Musk's Prediction of AGI by 2029. Wil...
Super-AGI is pumped! The prediction: 2029 feels like a pivotal year. I’d be surprised if we don’t have AGI by then. Hopefully, people on Mars too. Read more
Posted on 01 June 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
From Today's Walk
Posted on 31 May 2022
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The Towers of Warsaw, a Triple Challenge for SOA LMMs
SOA means State of the Art, of course, and LMM means Large Language Model. The Towers of Warsaw, that’s a bit more obscure. To understand what it is we first... Read more
Posted on 31 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Ornamental Alliums for My Sister
Posted on 30 May 2022
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PHILOSOPHY,
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Visionary Papers at the Edge of the Coming Diamond Age [Progress Studies]
Michael Nielsen has a very interesting essay about visionary papers, Working notes on the role of vision papers in basic science. Here's his initial list: Alan... Read more
Posted on 30 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Eureka! Have I Found It? How to Model the Mind, That Is. [Symbols and Nets]
Since roughly the last week in April, when I applied for an Emergent Ventures grant (which was quickly, but politely, turned down), I have been working hard on... Read more
Posted on 30 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Which One Doesn't Belong? [figs]
Posted on 29 May 2022
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What is This “human Level Intelligence”? How is “intelligence” Operationalized i...
I know what the terms mean individually, and have some sense of what the phrase means. But, come to think of it, “level” seems to imply some linear scale, like... Read more
Posted on 29 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Irises, Pink and Blue
Posted on 28 May 2022
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