Entries from July 2006

Randian Objectivism – It’s Evolutionary Psychology, Stupid

Comments   17   Date Arrow  July 21, 2006 at 11:30am   User  by Psybertron

Pirsig‘s Metaphyisics of Quality – It’s Evolutionary Psychology, Stupid Wilson’s Consilience – It’s Evolutionary Psychology, Stupid Rand’s Objectivism – It’s Evolutionary Psychology, Stupid It’s Evolutionary Psychology, Stupid I realise I missed the boat, and that evolutionary psychology as philosophy came and went out of fashion some time ago, but all roads, even diametrically opposed ones [...]

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Coming soon (with any luck)

Comments   1   Date Arrow  July 14, 2006 at 4:19pm   User  by Psybertron

Wilson’s Consilience – OK by me ? Gisrip – starting at Sandy Hook / Navesink Highlands ? US pop culture locations and the “Hersham Boys” ? Atlas shrugged apparently – tell me again Platt, why am I reading Ayn Rand ?

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Enlightened Reading ?

Comments   5   Date Arrow  July 2, 2006 at 10:44pm   User  by Psybertron

I’ve barely blogged or posted anywhere in the last few months, almost none in the last month. Just too busy with the day job, and in a temporary state domestically. We move into a longer term place next weekend. I have however found some disjointed time to do some reading. I think the last things [...]

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Aaaaggghhh!!!

Comments   0   Date Arrow  July 2, 2006 at 8:53pm   User  by Psybertron

Just lost an hour’s worth of blog post, thanks to not saving as draft, and hitting the wrong “links” button that took me away from the blog-writing page. I thought WordPress have autosave now – obviously not – Grrr. And whilst on the subject of features … I need some better spam filtering. The blog [...]

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Zen Stories

Comments   0   Date Arrow  July 2, 2006 at 7:39pm   User  by Psybertron

I came across this link before, but didn’t capture it [Oh yes I did, in the last collection of rivets's links]. John Suler at Rider University (Lawrenceburg, Trenton, NJ). Some interesting stories, more than koans. Zen philosophy meets narrative method. Worth following the links to John’s other psychoanalysis, and eastern philosophy of mind pages.

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