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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Changizi's 7 Secrets of Success as a Theorist
My Seven Secrets to Harnessing Your Creativity as a Theorist(1) Turing Tape(2) Open-Minded(3) Proliferate and Select(4) Aloof [heeyuge!](5) Be the Boss(6)... Read more
Posted on 09 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Success of Fortnite, Or: Into the Metaverse
While I know that video games are Big Business, I know relatively little about them. It seems that a relatively new game, Fortnite, released in 2017, has been... Read more
Posted on 08 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Jonathan Haidt on Facebook and the Problem of Large, Diverse, Secular Democracies
Jonathan Haidt in Vox: ...large, diverse, secular democracies are inherently unstable, inherently prone to division unless there are sufficient “centripetal”... Read more
Posted on 08 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Louis Armstrong's Philosophy of Life
Cadence: Do you have a philosophy of life? Louis: Stay happy, take good care of yourself, treat your fellow man right, can't expect no more than that. Read more
Posted on 07 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Dark Matter of the Brain?
Silent Neurons: The Dark Matter of the Brain? https://t.co/H2UYFxg4Fu New post! Is it true that "the great majority of nerve cells in the intact brain do not... Read more
Posted on 06 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Why is Switzerland So Peaceful? – Good Boundaries.
Alex Rutherford, Dion Harmon, Justin Werfel∗,Shlomiya Bar-Yam, Alexander Gard-Murray, Andreas Gros, and Yaneer Bar-Yam, Good Fences: The Importance of... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
On American Pirates of the 17th Century – Among Other Things, Crews Elected Thei...
Christopher Klein interviews author Eric Jay Dolin in The Boston Globe, "The surprising history of American pirates." As Marblehead author Eric Jay Dolin... Read more
Posted on 02 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Origins of the Anthropcene and of the Modern World in the Post 1492 Death...
Alexander Koch, Chris Brierley, Mark M. Maslin, Simon L.Lewis, Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492,... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Invariance Principles of Brain Connectivity
The two invariance principles I hypothesized govern brain connectivity; the data across brains from small to large confirm this hypothesis. From Changizi... Read more
Posted on 29 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
And This is Progress in Computing?
I am really fascinated by the fact that a computer with 1000x faster processor and 100x more memory than 20 years ago can still feel slower, because of ads,... Read more
Posted on 28 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Formal Limits on Machine Learning
Ashutosh Jogalekar, Open Borders, 3 Quarks Daily, Jan 21, 2019: The continuum hypothesis is related to two different kinds of infinities found in mathematics. Read more
Posted on 22 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Syncho-Dog
DANCE ENABLES YOU TO LOSE YOURSELF FIND YOURSELF AT THE SAME TIME .... SO DANCE TO EXPRESS NOT TO IMPRESS.... AND YOU HAVE SUCH A WONDERFUL FRIEND .... JUST... Read more
Posted on 20 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos [a Day Late]: Food (at the Malibu)
Posted on 19 January 2019
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Body Sway and Synchronization in Musical Performance
Andrew Chang, Haley E. Kragness, Steven R. Livingstone, Dan J. Bosnyak Laurel J. Trainor, Body sway reflects joint emotional expression in music ensemble... Read more
Posted on 19 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Sabine Hossenfelder Thinks a Bigger Collider Would Be a Poor Investment
CERN is dreaming of a new and larger particle collider, called Future Circular Collider (FCC). The cost would be in the low 10s of billions (dollars or Euros,... Read more
Posted on 16 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
No, I Did Not Have Dinner at the White House
Posted on 16 January 2019
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On the Vicissitudes of Authors and Intentions in Literary Criticism
John Farrell, Why Literature Professors Turned Against Authors – Or Did they?, Los Angeles Review of Nooks, 13 January 2018. The opening paragraphs: SINCE THE... Read more
Posted on 16 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Space as a Framework for Representing Mental Contents in the Brain
Jordana Cepelewicz, The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces, Quanta Magazine, January 14, 2019. Opening paragraphs: We humans have always experienced... Read more
Posted on 16 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Tulsi Gabbard: Bolton on Iran Must Be Shut Down
John Bolton’s long standing desire for regime change in Iran must be called out and shut down. If we’re serious about peace, we need to commit to diplomacy and... Read more
Posted on 15 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Some Thoughts About Wikipedia
I subscribe to a listserve devoted to the digital humanities. Recently another subscriber asked us for our thoughts about Wikipedia. Here's my response. Read more
Posted on 15 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
