May 2012
23 posts
“Patternicity is common across the animal kingdom. Early studies in the 1950s by...”
– Shermer, Michael. The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies — How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths. New York: Times Books, 2011.
“This is not just a theory to explain why people believe weird things. It is a...”
– Shermer, Michael. The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies — How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths. New York: Times Books, 2011.
“Unfortunately, we did not evolve a baloney-detection network in the brain to...”
– Shermer, Michael. The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies — How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths. New York: Times Books, 2011.
“We are the descendants of those who were most successful at finding patterns....”
– Shermer, Michael. The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies — How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths. New York: Times Books, 2011.
“Inspired by Skinner’s classic experiments, Koichi Ono of Komazawa University in...”
– Shermer, Michael. The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies — How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths. New York: Times Books, 2011.
“Our brains are belief engines, evolved pattern-recognition machines that connect...”
– Shermer, Michael. The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies — How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths. New York: Times Books, 2011.
“Imagine that you are a hominid walking along the savanna of an African valley...”
– Shermer, Michael. The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies — How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths. New York: Times Books, 2011.
“In the cortex of our brains there is a neural network that neuroscientists call...”
“In any case, if there is an afterlife and a God who resides over it, I intend to...”
– Shermer, Michael. The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies — How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths. New York: Times Books, 2011.
“Over the past three decades I have noted two disturbing tendencies in both...”
– Shermer, Michael. The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies — How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths. New York: Times Books, 2011.
“(…) as Yogi Berra once said, “In theory, there is no difference between theory...”
– Shermer, Michael. The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies — How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths. New York: Times Books, 2011.
“In the cortex of our brains there is a neural network that neuroscientists call...”
– Shermer, Michael. The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies — How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths. New York: Times Books, 2011.
“The brain is a belief engine. From sensory data flowing in through the senses...”
– Shermer, Michael. The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies — How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths. New York: Times Books, 2011.
“In I-art, then, (df.) the form/content of the artwork is significantly affected...”
– Boden, Margaret A., and Ernest A. Edmonds. “What is generative art?” Digital Creativity 20. 1 (2009): 21-46.
“Audiences are never wholly passive, of course, since art-appreciation involves...”
– Boden, Margaret A., and Ernest A. Edmonds. “What is generative art?” Digital Creativity 20. 1 (2009): 21-46.
“As for evolutionary programming, this has given rise to an important sub-class...”
– Boden, Margaret A., and Ernest A. Edmonds. “What is generative art?” Digital Creativity 20. 1 (2009): 21-46.
“We (…) prefer to define CG-art less tidily, as art wherein (df.) the artwork...”
– Boden, Margaret A., and Ernest A. Edmonds. “What is generative art?” Digital Creativity 20. 1 (2009): 21-46.
“These disciplines see generative systems as sets of abstract rules that can...”
– Boden, Margaret A., and Ernest A. Edmonds. “What is generative art?” Digital Creativity 20. 1 (2009): 21-46.
“Even more control was lost, or rather deliberately sacrificed, when Hans Haacke,...”
– Boden, Margaret A., and Ernest A. Edmonds. “What is generative art?” Digital Creativity 20. 1 (2009): 21-46.
“The sub-class of C-art which interests us is the type where the computer is not...”
– Boden, Margaret A., and Ernest A. Edmonds. “What is generative art?” Digital Creativity 20. 1 (2009): 21-46.
“The second reason why the definition of C-art given above is too catholic for...”
– Boden, Margaret A., and Ernest A. Edmonds. “What is generative art?” Digital Creativity 20. 1 (2009): 21-46.
“(…) the concept of computer art, or C-art. By C-art, we mean (df.) art in whose...”
– Boden, Margaret A., and Ernest A. Edmonds. “What is generative art?” Digital Creativity 20. 1 (2009): 21-46.
“There is no doubt that I am interested in the rules themselves, not merely in...”
– Boden, Margaret A., and Ernest A. Edmonds. “What is generative art?” Digital Creativity 20. 1 (2009): 21-46.
April 2012
30 posts
“In what I count as generative art, by contrast, the rules must be constructive....”
– Boden, Margaret A., and Ernest A. Edmonds. “What is generative art?” Digital Creativity 20. 1 (2009): 21-46.
“(…) the label ‘generative art’, as used in the community concerned, has acquired...”
– Boden, Margaret A., and Ernest A. Edmonds. “What is generative art?” Digital Creativity 20. 1 (2009): 21-46.
“However, computer artists—and computer scientists, too—know from their own...”
– Boden, Margaret A., and Ernest A. Edmonds. “What is generative art?” Digital Creativity 20. 1 (2009): 21-46.
“Rules are at the heart of this type of art. But what computer scientists call...”
– Boden, Margaret A., and Ernest A. Edmonds. “What is generative art?” Digital Creativity 20. 1 (2009): 21-46.
“(…) the philosopher Max Bense—who had composed the manifesto for the original...”
– Boden, Margaret A., and Ernest A. Edmonds. “What is generative art?” Digital Creativity 20. 1 (2009): 21-46.
“The terms ‘generative art’ and ‘computer art’ have been used in tandem, and more...”
– Boden, Margaret A., and Ernest A. Edmonds. “What is generative art?” Digital Creativity 20. 1 (2009): 21-46.
“For Tomasello, the singularity of our species rests upon a unique capacity for...”
– Dehaene, Stanislas. Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention. New York: Viking, 2009.
“It has been proposed that the human brain is specifically “preadapted” for...”
– Dehaene, Stanislas. Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention. New York: Viking, 2009.
“Religion is a kind of parasite that rides piggyback on the cognitive modules...”
– Dehaene, Stanislas. Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention. New York: Viking, 2009.
“A visual competence for faces emerges in all humans early in infancy. It is...”
– Dehaene, Stanislas. Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention. New York: Viking, 2009.
“The human brain never evolved for reading. Biological evolution is blind, and no...”
– Dehaene, Stanislas. Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention. New York: Viking, 2009.
“The invention of reading led to the mutation of our cerebral circuits into a...”
– Dehaene, Stanislas. Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention. New York: Viking, 2009.
“Why is our nervous system so insensitive to the left-right inversion? Probably...”
– Dehaene, Stanislas. Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention. New York: Viking, 2009.
“(…) whenever an image becomes familiar, our memory often fails to specify its...”
– Dehaene, Stanislas. Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention. New York: Viking, 2009.
“Thanks to Stephen Jay Gould’s eponymous book, the panda’s thumb has become the...”
– Dehaene, Stanislas. Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention. New York: Viking, 2009.
“If organisms were flawless, I might perhaps have some sympathy for intelligent...”
– Dehaene, Stanislas. Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention. New York: Viking, 2009.
“There is no doubt that the main effect of literacy is positive: learning to read...”
– Dehaene, Stanislas. Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention. New York: Viking, 2009.
“Education inoculates us with the reading virus. It spreads quickly to our...”
– Dehaene, Stanislas. Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention. New York: Viking, 2009.
“In Phaedrus, Plato imagines an exchange between the Egyptian king Thamus and...”
– Dehaene, Stanislas. Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention. New York: Viking, 2009.
“(…) Plotinus was wrong. If hieroglyphs, like a cartoon, had indeed provided...”
– Dehaene, Stanislas. Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention. New York: Viking, 2009.
“An age-old tradition speculates that writing began with the pictorial...”
– Dehaene, Stanislas. Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention. New York: Viking, 2009.
“In summary, whether by design or thanks to some extraordinary intuition, the...”
– Dehaene, Stanislas. Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention. New York: Viking, 2009.
“If we disregard orientation, two strokes always make a T, an L or an X. Three...”
– Dehaene, Stanislas. Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention. New York: Viking, 2009.
“All writing systems assume that the location and size of characters is...”
– Dehaene, Stanislas. Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention. New York: Viking, 2009.
“(…) the diversity of the existing writing systems bears examination. Even a...”
– Dehaene, Stanislas. Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention. New York: Viking, 2009.
“The idea that writing is a gift of God recurs in cultures all around the world....”
– Dehaene, Stanislas. Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention. New York: Viking, 2009.
“(…) the metaphor of a “cultural epidemic” is particularly well suited to...”
– Dehaene, Stanislas. Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention. New York: Viking, 2009.