Interesting new philosophical blog … anonymous by the handle of “afterall” … also with musical interests.
Entries from February 2012
It Could Be Worse
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February 25, 2012 at 9:54am
by Psybertron
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Notes on Pullman Conversation
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February 24, 2012 at 2:53pm
by Psybertron
Just rough notes – wanted to dig out Philip Pullman’s Jesus vs Christ references. Meaning of Life ? Meaning is about connections – to refer to, to call to mind … , and for humans this is about purpose – main purpose is increasing consciousness because we humans are fortunate to be the most advanced [...]
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More Big Science Media Crap
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February 23, 2012 at 1:21pm
by Psybertron
“What might have been …. the biggest physics story of the past century …. may instead be down to a faulty connection.” When the idiots get their minds out of the interminable God vs Science wars, will they notice the state science is in these days. Maybe they do and the war is just flak [...]
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Nothing But Trouble
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February 21, 2012 at 8:08am
by Psybertron
And courtesy of This Week in Christian Nationalism
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Handsome Dick
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February 20, 2012 at 11:29am
by Psybertron
My only knowledge of Richard “Handsome Dick Manitoba” Blum was as lead singer with New York proto-punks The Dictators (I have their Manifest Destiny album). The death today of  MC5 bassist Michael Davis led me to notice Dick had also been singer with MC5 at some point, and that Dick is the owner of Jack [...]
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Credit Where Credit’s Due
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February 20, 2012 at 10:14am
by Psybertron
Heard Julian Baggini in a debate on BBC R4 Sunday programme, discussing the recent militant secularism – the local council prayers and the latest baroness Warsi / Dawkins spat. I’ve previously always found Julian a little too non-committal, too wishy-washy, too willing to please … But here he was taking a positive strong middle-ground stance [...]
A Little Respect
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February 17, 2012 at 9:34am
by Psybertron
Sylvia and I often reply that bread is our favourite food if asked. Often we’d have a whole fresh bloomer (with nothing else) for lunch on a Saturday – and of course when paying attention to carbohydrate intake, that can be a problem. James Corden on BBC R4 Desert Island Discs, after losing 6 stones [...]
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Devo Max – Jocko Homo
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February 17, 2012 at 9:23am
by Psybertron
I could have posted this the instant it occurred to me yesterday – but now after BBC R4 Today playing a clip of Devo and interviewing Gerry Casale this morning #Devo is UK trending all over twitter this morning. I’ve posted before how Devo’s first UK gig at the Roundhouse Sunday 30th April 1978 was [...]
Florence Falls Foul of Facebook
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February 17, 2012 at 6:59am
by Psybertron
Back when this occurred – back in July 2010 – it was a bug with Facebook, that if you clicked on an item to see what was actually there, you were credited with a “Like” even if you were disgusted with what you found. I think it’s fixed. Hopefully Sunderland City Councillor Florence Anderson or her [...]
Fitting
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February 16, 2012 at 9:27am
by Psybertron
Great to hear the collaborative evolutionary aspect of “survival of the fittest” make prime time at last. Interviewing D S Wilson on the BBC R4 Today programme this morning, Evan had to make a clumsy apologetic aside along the lines of “Dawkins is big around here” but the visiting American could see the battle lines [...]
More Mobile Devices than Humans in 2012
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February 15, 2012 at 2:59pm
by Psybertron
Interesting TechCrunch review of Cisco report on information traffic trends.
Information and “Fashionable” Risk
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February 15, 2012 at 2:10pm
by Psybertron
Picked-up on this BBC Magazine story from the memetic “fashion” angle, but the second quote is telling too. “The fear of nuclear war has diminished partly because the risk has receded significantly with the end of the Cold War,” says Nick Bostrum, director of Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute. “But another factor might be [...]
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The Irish Internet
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February 15, 2012 at 1:09pm
by Psybertron
If I wanted to get there, I wouldn’t start from here ?
Dual People
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February 15, 2012 at 10:39am
by Psybertron
I need to finish off my notes on Daniel Kahneman’s “Thinking Fast and Slow” since I posted some criticisms before I’d read the concluding chapters. Strange to read the explicit dualisms: Two systems – Fast intuitive thinking and Slow considered thinking. Two species – Humans (reasonable) and Econs  (entirely rational). Two selves – Experiencing self [...]
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Now That Is Small
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February 15, 2012 at 9:18am
by Psybertron
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What Football Is
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February 15, 2012 at 8:49am
by Psybertron
All this recent negative stuff around football contrasts with the real thing seen as Barca visited Leverkusen last night. Scrap handshakes ? That’s how to do it. Defenders laughing and congratulating Messi when he beats them. Messi continuing regardless as he is repeatedly mis-tackled, and coming back for more. Contrast the grace of Messi (again) [...]
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What Pragmatism Is
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February 15, 2012 at 8:35am
by Psybertron
Matt’s 2008 article on Philosophos – just capturing the link so I don’t lose it.
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The Godfather III Meme
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February 14, 2012 at 4:09pm
by Psybertron
It’s customary to reckon Godfather III as the weakest of the trilogy; it happens to be my favourite, so I notice the fact. I also noticed this Simpson’s gag that reinforces the meme. Thanks to Jorn for the link. “Moe Baby Blues,” Season 14 - Moe becomes Maggie’s caretaker, rescuing her from a standoff between Fat [...]
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Fly on a Windshield
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February 14, 2012 at 12:48pm
by Psybertron
Tickled by this “high energy” physics story. Apparently the potential of a particle hurtling round CERN’s LHC at its full power of several TeV’s (Tera 1,000,000,000,000. electron volts) is equivalent to the energy of … … one whole mosquito in flight. [Post Note : See page footer for the significance of the "fly on a [...]
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Threat of Secularism
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February 14, 2012 at 9:07am
by Psybertron
Ooh another fight. This one runs and runs – like any catchy black vs white meme. Of course militant secularism is a threat to religious faith – that’s its point by definition. Sadly popular secularism has become a one-trick militant pony – whose sole purpose is to attack religion and/or faith in public. The professor for [...]
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The Future of Peer Review
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February 8, 2012 at 9:56am
by Psybertron
Richard Price in TechCrunch (via David Gurteen). The democratization of the web is good for the freedom, but not for the quality, of information. Of course if peer-review is too narrowly subject-matter focussed, the opposite “censoring” effect can distort and slow-down or even destroy the knowledge-evolution processes, but some level of editorial quality control (see [...]
