January 2012
27 posts
“Bertrand Russell, as he entered old age, wrote: “The best way to overcome [the...”
– Humphrey, Nicholas. Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2011.
“The evidence is all around that people will attempt to pack in as much...”
– Humphrey, Nicholas. Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2011.
“I will review—or at any rate visit—three strategies of restoring meaning to life...”
– Humphrey, Nicholas. Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2011.
“(…) living and dying have different tenses: the first requires continuing...”
– Humphrey, Nicholas. Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2011.
“(…) your fear of losing the core self will in some circumstances motivate you to...”
– Humphrey, Nicholas. Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2011.
“The acquisition by a child of what scientists call a theory of mind, which can...”
– Humphrey, Nicholas. Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2011.
“In which case the question becomes: what brings about the unification that will,...”
– Humphrey, Nicholas. Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2011.
“If fearing death is, indeed, a uniquely human trait, if fearing death is one of...”
– Humphrey, Nicholas. Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2011.
“Inevitably, you see that it is coming your way too. Yet, being no less in love...”
– Humphrey, Nicholas. Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2011.
“It could work like this. If natural selection can arrange that you enjoy the...”
– Humphrey, Nicholas. Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2011.
“So here is the question. Why should feeling that you exist—and valuing the...”
– Humphrey, Nicholas. Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2011.
“Conscious creatures enjoy being phenomenally conscious. They enjoy the world in...”
– Humphrey, Nicholas. Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2011.
“In short, I want to suggest that what having phenomenal experiences does is...”
– Humphrey, Nicholas. Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2011.
“Imagine yourself looking at a cascading waterfall or listening to the song of a...”
– Humphrey, Nicholas. Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2011.
“What is sensation? In modern human beings, sensation—for all its special...”
– Humphrey, Nicholas. Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2011.
“(…) humans may be more capable of expressing publicly what it is like to be...”
– Humphrey, Nicholas. Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2011.
“The hard problem is to explain how an entity made entirely of physical...”
– Humphrey, Nicholas. Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2011.
“Life is grand. Writing a biography is divine. It allows the biographer to...”
– Coupland, Douglas. Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! New York: Atlas & Co., 2011.
“Life is cruel. Writing a biography feels cruel. The writer knows when the...”
– Coupland, Douglas. Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! New York: Atlas & Co., 2011.
“Possibly as a result of his own neurological dramas, int he mid- to late 1970s...”
– Coupland, Douglas. Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! New York: Atlas & Co., 2011.
“New sorts of ideas obsessed Marshall after 1970. One of them was a biblical...”
– Coupland, Douglas. Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! New York: Atlas & Co., 2011.
“[Understanding Media] is in two parts. In Part One, Marshall states, “The...”
– Coupland, Douglas. Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! New York: Atlas & Co., 2011.
“Structurally, The Gutenberg Galaxy used four stages to outline the social...”
– Coupland, Douglas. Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! New York: Atlas & Co., 2011.
“The biggest intellectual leap during this era was Marshall’s ever more precise...”
– Coupland, Douglas. Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! New York: Atlas & Co., 2011.
“There are, perhaps, no practical political, religious, or financial applications...”
– Coupland, Douglas. Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! New York: Atlas & Co., 2011.
“Andy Warhol (also a devout Catholic) once discussed driving across the United...”
– Coupland, Douglas. Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! New York: Atlas & Co., 2011.
“As with F.R. Leavis giving him permission to study popular culture, [Siegfried]...”
– Coupland, Douglas. Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! New York: Atlas & Co., 2011.
December 2011
31 posts
“Marshall was also deeply engrossed in researching his dissertation on the...”
– Coupland, Douglas. Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! New York: Atlas & Co., 2011.
“In a way, McLuhan’s ideas become like a song we all know the tune of but not...”
– Coupland, Douglas. Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! New York: Atlas & Co., 2011.
“The medium is the message” means that the ostensible content of all electronic...”
– Coupland, Douglas. Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! New York: Atlas & Co., 2011.
“So here is Bill Gates and all those people going off to sweat lodge retreats and...”
– Coupland, Douglas. Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! New York: Atlas & Co., 2011.
“Geography has become irrelevant. Our online phantom world has become the new us....”
– Coupland, Douglas. Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! New York: Atlas & Co., 2011.
“When you give people too much information, they instantly resort to pattern...”
– Marshall McLuhan qtd. in Coupland, Douglas. Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! New York: Atlas & Co., 2011.
“Let us assume that the naturalistic turn in the image of Homo sapiens is...”
– Metzinger, Thomas. The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
“Yes, the self-model made us intelligent, but it certainly is not an example of...”
– Metzinger, Thomas. The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
“The emerging image of Homo sapiens is of a species whose members once longed to...”
– Metzinger, Thomas. The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
“Strictly speaking, there is no essence within us that stays the same across...”
– Metzinger, Thomas. The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
“The self is not a thing but a process.”
– Metzinger, Thomas. The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
“But the decisive step to an Ego Machine is the next one. If a system can...”
– Metzinger, Thomas. The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
“(…) consciousness is the presence of a world. In order for a world to appear to...”
– Metzinger, Thomas. The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
“Being conscious means that a particular set of facts is available to you: that...”
– Metzinger, Thomas. The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
“We may soon have a functionalist theory of consciousness, but this doesn’t mean...”
– Metzinger, Thomas. The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
“In thinking about artificial intelligence and artificial consciousness, many...”
– Metzinger, Thomas. The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
“(…) let us call any system capable of generating a conscious self an Ego...”
– Metzinger, Thomas. The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
“[Vittorio] Gallese: Scientists who believe that their discipline will...”
– Metzinger, Thomas. The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
“[Vittorio] Gallese: For most of history, the culture of our species has been an...”
– Metzinger, Thomas. The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
“[Vittorio] Gallese: The notion of simulation is employed in many different...”
– Metzinger, Thomas. The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
“From a philosophical perspective, the discovery of mirror neurons is exciting...”
– Metzinger, Thomas. The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
“Converging empirical data show that when we observe other human beings...”
– Metzinger, Thomas. The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
“Our brain does not simply register a chair, a teacup, an apple; it immediately...”
– Metzinger, Thomas. The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self. New York: Basic Books, 2009.