What, Why & How do we Know ?
Interesting. Not sure it says much about the religion vs science debate, but it does say a lot about effective styles of interaction. If you go in “taking the piss” and showing your audience no respect, I’m not sure you can expect your audience to show any respect to you or what you might have to … Continue reading “Blackmore Walkout”
I posted an initial response to Grayson Perry’s Reith #1 and added a short post-note after #2. Yesterday was #3 on the place of shock amongst other things in the leading edge of artistic development. (Didn’t manage to blog yesterday – after a couple of days away, I came back to a WordPress 3.7 upgrade … Continue reading “Limits of Shock”
Interesting little diagram on levels of argumentation – aimed at internet social-media commenters and tweeters who rarely have time to think of how their arguments are framed. (Post Note – This builds on an earlier draft post – published more recently. Now Fully consolidated in this “Rules of Engagement” page.) Like all such things – … Continue reading “How to Argue (on the Internet)”
Interesting to contrast yesterday’s UK parliamentary knock-about between Milliband and Campbell with Obama’s call for healing in the rhetorical wars between US partizan politicians and commentators. Blaming opponents for “all that ails the world” was unhelpful, he said. Cameron and Milliband were downright personal in trading insults of each other and their colleagues – despite … Continue reading “Wound or Heal ?”
PSYBERTRON’S MANIFESTO This page retains links to the origins of this blogging project back in 2001, and is organized in three parts: Who is Psybertron? What is Psybertron’s Worldview generally? What is Psybertron’s Agenda specifically? WHO? Ian Glendinning (Psybertron)’s profile and contact details here. (2001 vintage page, with only Resume content updated.) [Personal “Thought Journey” … Continue reading “Manifesto”