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 ( 7846 )
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Mark Liberman (Langauge Log) on the Perils of Current Machine Translation
Writing in Language Log today, Mark Liberman begins: In May of 2015, I gave a talk at the Centre Cournot in Paris on the topic "Why Human Language Technology... Read more
Posted on 06 November 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
State of the Art AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Adversarial Examples
Yes, AI has come a long way, and it still has a long way to go. In particular, it fails to comprehend the meaning of the phenomena it deals with, says Melanie... Read more
Posted on 06 November 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Control, Dynamics, and Depression
Kenett YN, Beaty RE, Medaglia JD. (2018) A Computational Network Control Theory Analysis of Depression Symptoms. Personality Neuroscience. Vol 1: e16, 1-11.... Read more
Posted on 05 November 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Brain, the Teleome, and the Movies
Another working paper. Title above, abstract and table of contents below. Download at: Academia.edu:... Read more
Posted on 05 November 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Zombies Rising
I'd originally published this back in late October of 2011, at the time Occupy was active in Lower Manhattan. I'm reposting it here because Tim Sommers has an... Read more
Posted on 05 November 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Night and Day
Posted on 05 November 2018
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The Gojira Ur-text Has Been Discovered
The Godziliad. https://t.co/kexjEng5m1 pic.twitter.com/AlLBHMDhFB — Adam Roberts (@arrroberts) November 5, 2018 Needless to say, it's epic! Read more
Posted on 05 November 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
I Live in the Home of the First Brewery in America (that Explains a LOT)
A little NJ trivia on the campaign trail from @CoryBooker in Hoboken: “I brag to other states that Hoboken had the first brewery in the United States of... Read more
Posted on 04 November 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Sports Parents Behaving Badly
Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Why Sports Parents Sometimes Behave So Badly, NYTimes, Nov. 1, 2018: A 2016 study in the Journal of Family Relations by Dr. Read more
Posted on 03 November 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Mechner, F., A Behavioral and Biological Analysis of Aest...
Mechner, F., A Behavioral and Biological Analysis of Aesthetics: Implications for Research and Applications, Psychol Rec (2018) 68: 287.... Read more
Posted on 03 November 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Update on the Bogdonoff Graffiti Study
The site is currently disabled for signups. The home page now describes the six methods for using machine learning to analyze street art. pic.twitter. Read more
Posted on 03 November 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Steven Vizena’s “Trapped in a Two Dimensional World” as Interprete...
Vizena’s artist’s statement ( his website): My artwork is about enhancing ones reality through better utilization of our visual capacities and awareness of... Read more
Posted on 02 November 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Marjorie Perloff on Trump and Howard Hughes
Hughes anticipates the current 'legend' of Trump and his empire. From Hughes to Trump: it seems a clear-cut example of Marx's aphorism that great men always... Read more
Posted on 02 November 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Interlude: Slocum’s Pilot and Sensory Deprivation
Bumping this to the top because this is fundamental work. It's from July 2011, but I read La Barre back in the middle to late 1970s. Read more
Posted on 01 November 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Tweet of the Day: The Primacy of Semantics Over Syntax in Language
This is excellent work. It also underscores the category mistake often made by linguists of confounding syntax with semantics in reasoning. E.g. recursive... Read more
Posted on 31 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
My Old Stomping Grounds
Posted on 31 October 2018
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Cybernetic Trump, Dominating the Public Arena
I recently posted a cybernetic analysis of Donald Trump’s presidency, Trumposaurus Rex @ 3QD – Toward a cybernetic interpretation. This is a relatively short... Read more
Posted on 31 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Collaboration Networks in the Selection of Drum Samples for Hip-hp
Mason Youngblood, Cultural transmission modes of music sampling traditions remain stable despite delocalization in the digital age, arXiv:1810.11900v1 [stat. Read more
Posted on 31 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Getting a Boost from Marginal Revolution, Or into the Weeds with Stats...
Last Thursday, October 25, 2018, I ran up a post entitled, Is this the beginning of the #WorldWideWall ?. The post consisted of five tweets from Leonard... Read more
Posted on 30 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
RHYTHM NOTES: Polyrhythms – Construction, Practice, Performance
A new working paper. Abstract, contents, and introduction below. Download here: Academia.edu:... Read more
Posted on 29 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
