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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Japanese Prints on Twitter
♫【川瀬巴水 [Kawase Hasui] [kawc-8]】♫ pic.twitter.com/cqcJcSFBJ3 — mako671178 (@mako671178) January 6, 2020... Read more
Posted on 08 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Johnny Don't Study War No More
Time to break out the anti-war/peace music. The New York Path to Peace has another video out, based on a traditional tune, When Johnny Comes Marching Home.... Read more
Posted on 08 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Middle East Was at the Forefront of Global Culture in the 17th Century, and...
David Belcher, Skip the Vatican Museum. Go to the National Museum of Qatar. NYTimes, 1.7,20: The cities of the Gulf region — the modern-day, sun-draped Gothams... Read more
Posted on 07 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Words Before Grammar
Herbert Terrace is blogging at Psychology Today, at least in part to support his new book, Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can (Leonard... Read more
Posted on 07 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Long-term Stability of Cortical Population Dynamics Underlying Consistent...
These results fall under the category 'the unreasonable effectiveness of linear methods'. Nonlinear methods are sometimes essential to progress: we love and... Read more
Posted on 07 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Singularity Watch: Are We There Yet?
Tyler Cowen, 6 January 2020, Prediction difficulty seems to be rising: That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt: My main prediction... Read more
Posted on 07 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Lost in Space and Anne – with an “E” [Media Notes 30]
I just finished watching the second season of Lost in Space and have re-watched the first season. I’ve also watched the second season of Anne with an “E” and... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Human Swarm @3QD [Mark Moffett @ New Savanna]
I’ve just posted my review of The Human Swarm at 3 Quarks Daily: Of Ants And Humans: Some Principles Of Social Organization. I’ve also written some posts about... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
A Glass of Water at the Malibu Diner
Posted on 06 January 2020
CULTURE,
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Clerks in the English Legal System – No Equivalent in the American System
Simon Akam, The Exquisitely English (and Amazingly Lucrative) World of London Clerks, Bloomberg Business Week. Clerks have co-existed with chimney sweeps and... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Photos from Twitter 4
It's been one hell of a decade! The places I've been...the things I've seen. I have stories.... Image #1 Snow Geese Blasting Off, Pocosin Lakes NWR, NC, USA,... Read more
Posted on 04 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Lost in Space – A Short Note About a Crucial Distinction [Media Notes 29]
I’m now nine episodes (out of ten) into a rewatch of the first season of the 2018 remake of Lost in Space. One distinction that various characters have to make... Read more
Posted on 03 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Reading the Human Swarm 9: What About the Brain?
There is at least one place where Moffett mentions the brain, in the beginning of Chapter 12, “Sensing Others”, where he mentions the work of Uri Hasson, a... Read more
Posted on 03 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Signs of the Hallucinated City 2
Posted on 03 January 2020
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Does Biological Evolution Operate on Algorithmic Complexity?
Jordana Cepelewicz, Mathematical Simplicity May Drive Evolution’s Speed, Quanta Magazine, November 28, 2019. By way of analogy, consider those infamous... Read more
Posted on 03 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Deep Learning Tools and Architectures
The figure above is an (old) slide I usually show in lectures and talks. Mix and matching those components creates cool architectures such as the one used in... Read more
Posted on 02 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
E. Glen Weyl and Tyler Cowen on the Future
Tyler Cowen, What libertarianism has become and will become — State Capacity Libertarianism, Marginal Revolution, January 1, 2019. Read more
Posted on 02 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
What Kind of Things Exist in the Biological World?
Lynn Chiu, New Series: blogging about Biological Individuality! Medium, Dec. 31, 2019. Those promoting process biology (e.g. John Dupré), dialectical biology... Read more
Posted on 02 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
First Shots of the New Year: Hoboken at Night
Posted on 02 January 2020
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Innovation and Excellence: Pound’s Typology [& Does It Apply to Chinese Tech?]
I'm in the process of reading Dan Wang's 2019 Letter, which opens with reflections on Chinese tech. Pound offered this classification system for literary... Read more
Posted on 01 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
