Psybertron Asks

His NIBBS – Dr Ian Pitchford runs the Human Nature Review and publishes this Daily Review of news in evolutionary psychology as “NIBBS“. [via Jean-Luc Delatre]. Recent editions include very positive reviews of Pinker’s “The Blank Slate”, Dennett’s “Freedom Evolves” and Jones’ “Y – The Descent of Men”. A positive gold mine of material.

Jean-Luc Delatre – Only just discovered this site, following some feedback from Jean-Luc. An interesting mix of Tao (Zen) thought with epistemology and ontologies. It seems Jean-Luc has been venting his frustration with the ontology approach at SUO / SUMO, where he has crossed swords with fellow conspirator at EPISTLE, Matthew West.

Karun Philip – Mentioned earlier, a thread with Karun Philip arising from a discussion over Wolfram’s ANKOS. Karun has since started a blog.

In between a hectic schedule of family, sailing and football I seem to have found little time to read anything over the break, let alone blog.

Logic vs Analogy – Bill Kuhns McLuhan Studies at Toronto Uni [also via Jorn]. Somewhere I need to go.

Occult Philosophy in 17thC – G MacDonald-Ross at Leeds Uni [via Jorn] Hmmm.

How ’bout you? [via Rivets].

Keep it Snappy – Why don’t people publishing RSS keep their output to headline and link url, rather than padding it with their entire posting content. Surely the point is to publish the link. That way aggregators contain dense summaries of many links rather than actual content of the most recent few.

Did anyone see this article in the FT on 9th April 2003. Needs registration to read. (Links given are www.agsm.unsw.edu.au/eajm/0209/michelson.html and michael.skapinker@ft.com ) Gossip and informal e-mail comms tell us more about the real state of a company than any formal management reports. So what’s new? Michael Skapinker points out that any attempt to formally harness the informal is doomed to kill the goose. See response to the earlier e-mail article from Hewlett-Packard, which recognised the real value in informal e-mail correspondence. Great, completely correct, 100% true, but totally useless ? (As the “Doc” used to remind us junior engineers. Useful = Better than true. True = Merely true, but useless.)

Zen and Brian Josephson – Curiouser and curiouser, closer and closer. Brilliant parody of the paradoxical by Daniel Drasin via Josephson.