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 ( 7824 )
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City of Shades [Manhattan]
Posted on 20 August 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Consciousness, Reorganization and Polyviscosity, Part 4: Glia
Early on in my reading and studying neuroscience I read about the glia, brain cells between the neurons. Not much was known about them at the time and they... Read more
Posted on 20 August 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Take It to the Streets [Hoboken Arts & Music, May 2022]
Posted on 19 August 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Input-dependent Segregation of Visual and Somatosensory Circuits in the Mouse...
Thrilled to share our new paper published today in @ScienceMagazine! Huge congrats to @T_Guillamon and all the coauthors for the great work 👏... Read more
Posted on 19 August 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Consciousness, Reorganization and Polyviscosity, Part 3: Substrate...
In Part 1 I connected polyviscosity with the account of consciousness and reorganization offered by William Powers in Behavior: The Control of Perception (1973). Read more
Posted on 19 August 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Predicting the Neural Information That Supports Human Cognitive Behavior
How is #cognitive task behavior generated by #BrainNetwork interactions? @RaviMill @TheColeLab co apply a novel network modeling approach to source #EEG data,... Read more
Posted on 19 August 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Strange Intimacy in Cyberspace [personal Discussion of Polyamory on YouTube]
I feel a bit stange posting this YouTube slip. Heck, I felt a bit strange watching it. Why? Because a couple was discussing an intimate aspect of their private... Read more
Posted on 18 August 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Trees, Man, Pier, Skyline
Posted on 18 August 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Consciousness, Reorganization and Polyviscosity, Part 2 (mini-ramble)
As I explained previously – Consciousness, reorganization and polyviscosity, Part 1 – William Powers identified consciousness with the process of reorganization... Read more
Posted on 18 August 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Up on Bergen Hill [Hoboken]
Posted on 17 August 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Some Statistical Problems with AI [self-driving Cars]
First of all, the basics: random distributions can either be short-tailed (finite variance such as Gaussian) or fat tailed (e.g. Pareto). Read more
Posted on 17 August 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Splish Splash
Posted on 16 August 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Thriving and Jiving with Music @3QD [+ Liszt & Roma Music]
I’ve got another post up at 3 Quarks Daily: Thriving and Jiving Among Friends and Family: The Place of Music in Everyday Life It’s a lightly revised version of... Read more
Posted on 16 August 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Looking North Then South on the Hudson at 5 in the Morning
Posted on 15 August 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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How is a Text Like an Image? [deep Learning & Symbols]
I find it interesting that deep learning has done well with both images and texts, though they are very different kinds of objects presenting ostensibly... Read more
Posted on 15 August 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Loss of Complexity in Vocal Anatomy as an Adaptation for Speech
Evolutionary loss of complexity in human vocal anatomy as an adaptation for speech https://t.co/MOEj2k2lth— Bill Benzon, BAM! Bootstrapping Artificial Minds... Read more
Posted on 14 August 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Various Flowers
Posted on 14 August 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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We Don’t Know How to Have Fun, Not Really [long-term Behavioral Flexibility]
Laura Vanderkam, Don’t Feel Guilty About Working on Vacation — or About Vacationing at Work, NYTimes, August 13, 2022. Here’s a problem: And when we do take tim... Read more
Posted on 14 August 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Winning a Grammy Encourages an Artist to Amplify the Unique Aspects of Their...
The paper speculates that non-winners may become conformists since they decide to switch strategies in order to winOr they may be victims of the... Read more
Posted on 13 August 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
I'm Feeling Like It's Yacht Time
Posted on 13 August 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
