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asweknowit:art & illusion

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As we know it:. On the evolution of culture, technology and knowledge. Media ecology and evolution. Tim Parks and the mind's rancour. Anyone who's bothered to look at my "recently read" list on the lower right will notice two titles by Tim Parks. One of my favourite novelists. 3am has a great tape-transcript interview with him. Here he talks about the main character of. In this regard. Nabokov too, who is an obvious influence on Banville, if not Parks. Submitted by Paul J Kelly on 2003-08-07T02:52 Comment.

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As we know it:. On the evolution of culture, technology and knowledge. Evolution is a knowledge process. Media ecology and evolution. The technologies in our environment and what they do to us. The necessity of hype in technological revolutions. The nature of perception and deception. Evolutionary patterns in history. Books to look into. But had to blog it anyway. If you are a writer or researcher interested in using a weblog similar to asweknowit.ca. Check out my professional credentials at polvo.ca.

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asweknowit:cultural evolution

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As we know it:. On the evolution of culture, technology and knowledge. Media ecology and evolution. I should mention the good work Ian Glendinning is doing over at Psybertron. Not just because he's always blogging me. As I understand it: How can we better understand what we do given we never know precisely what it is we are doing- then have a visit. Check out my blogroll (finally back up after some kind of DNS snafu) for more KM with a philosophical bent from the likes of Dave Pollard. Frankenstein alrea...

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asweknowit:stuff to read

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As we know it:. On the evolution of culture, technology and knowledge. Media ecology and evolution. Beethoven's Anvil: Music in Mind and Culture. William Benzon is an old prof of mine who has a book out on music and cognition. Here's an abstract (found on this page. Why does the brain create music? What is it about certain abstract patterns of sound that makes us want to dance? How can songs have deep emotional power despite lyrics that are simple and trite? If so, what? The Gifts of Athena. Connecting p...

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As we know it:. On the evolution of culture, technology and knowledge. Evolution is a knowledge process. Media ecology and evolution. The technologies in our environment and what they do to us. The necessity of hype in technological revolutions. The nature of perception and deception. Evolutionary patterns in history. Books to look into. But had to blog it anyway. A Culture is What It Knows. How we perceive and know the world is a matter of some importance. An animal must act on its perceptions in or...

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asweknowit:amor fati

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As we know it:. On the evolution of culture, technology and knowledge. Media ecology and evolution. Intelligent Design is not Optimal Design. Looking through my log reports I noticed someone found the site with the query "i cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and", a phrase I didn't at first recognize as something I'd blogged last March. So I plugged it into google. The scientific naturalist explains dysteleology by claiming that the design in nature is only apparent, that it arose through mutation ...

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asweknowit:selection theory

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As we know it:. On the evolution of culture, technology and knowledge. Media ecology and evolution. Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution. We should all be thankful for authors like Gary Cziko who put their entire books online. To this blog. Cziko's chapter "Adapted Behavior as the Control of Perception" is an easily-digested summary of PCT. But I notice his latest,. The Things We Do. Submitted by Paul J Kelly on 2003-08-07T14:24 Comment. John Dewey's essay clai...

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As we know it:. On the evolution of culture, technology and knowledge. Media ecology and evolution. I hate to do this but. I gotta prolong this hiatus. Too much going on right now. Got a business. That's starting to take off and the rest of the time I'm teaching sci-fi literature for a Humanities course at York University. But I am going to continue to hack away at Norm Walsh. I am not stopping for good! And if anyone can help me figure out how to get saxon to work via Walsh's Makefile. This has little t...

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asweknowit:mindbrain

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As we know it:. On the evolution of culture, technology and knowledge. Media ecology and evolution. Compromise is name of the game in how brain works, say researchers. EH Gombrich wrote, "To probe the visual world we use the assumption that things are simple until they prove to be otherwise." Now, using computerized "perceivers", some UofT researchers are proving that inputs are insufficient for knowledge. To which this story refers, and which I have not read, can be purchased here. Well this brings me t...