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  • Originally posted on The Elusive Self: The human brain is an incredibly complex object. With billions of cells each with thousands of connections, it is difficult to know where to begin. Neuroscientists can probe the brain with electrodes, see inside… Continue reading

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  • Why Johnny Can’t Read or Win Wars

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Johnny isn’t able to think critically – and that’s the point of a corporate-business model of education. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Numbers are often neither definitive nor unequivocal, yet we continue to elevate them… Continue reading

    Why Johnny Can’t Read or Win Wars
  • AI, or Awakened Intelligence

    unfueled – uncompromised – undefined – unconditioned – unbounded : mindful #liberation : #nirvana — Keith Wayne Brown (@pahndeepah) March 1, 2013 Let me make this over the top claim: “Artificial Intelligence” is actually what we do on a regular… Continue reading

    AI, or Awakened Intelligence
  • I Want You Back

    Really a superb cover. Related articles Ex-Temptations singer Richard Street dies at 70 (kfwbam.com) Michael Jackson Hits Broadway! – First Look at Motown: The Musical (people.com) Mighty Motown: A Conversation with Berry Gordy (essence.com) Continue reading

    I Want You Back
  • Originally posted on Footnotes2Plato: Latour is introduced by professor of physics Wilson Poon, who publicly confesses to being a great admirer of Latour’s work. Latour, thinly veiling how tired he is of the “Science Wars,” thanks him for the “rare… Continue reading

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  • A Boon of Dandelions 6

    One of those days, the kind where the full joyous light of the day before waned and eclipsed to melancholy. Discussions in and out of class of superstructural boundaries that impress and compress, beneath a veil of peace, pushing the… Continue reading

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  • Originally posted on Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.: Philosophical Awakening This e-book, which is now available to order, is entitled Awakening to Philosophical Life: Essays Personal and Impersonal. It was completed at the end of February of 2013 and is meant to be… Continue reading

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  • Dependents of the State – NYTimes.com

    …if the poor are dependent on the state, so, too, are America’s rich. The extraordinary accumulation of wealth enjoyed by the socioeconomic elite — in 2007, the richest 1 percent of Americans accounted for about 24 percent of all income… Continue reading

    Dependents of the State – NYTimes.com
  • Originally posted on Grand Strategy: The View from Oregon: Wednesday It is rare for a philosopher to have much influence over the popular mind, although it does happen occasionally. I have previously mentioned how Kuhn’s conception of a paradigm shift… Continue reading

  • R.I.P. 26 February 1969: Death of Philosopher Karl Jaspers

    As those who have been visiting here for a while will know, the original address for this site was karljaspers23. My mentor, Richard M. Owsley, was a student of Prof. Dr. Jaspers. To say that Jaspers had an impact on… Continue reading

    R.I.P. 26 February 1969: Death of Philosopher Karl Jaspers