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Bookmark Eureka! Neural evidence for sudden insight
A recent study provides intriguing information about the neural dynamics underlying behavioral changes associated with the development of new problem solving strategies. The research... supports the idea of "a-ha" moments in…

May 14 2010, 2:28am | Comments
Bookmark Bad Writing and Bad Thinking
Orwell leaves us with a list of simple rules: * Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. * Never use…

April 29 2010, 2:55pm | Comments
Wikipedia The Game (mind game) There are three rules to The Game: Everyone in the world is playing The Game. (Sometimes narrowed to: "Everybody in the world who knows about The Game is playing The Game",[4] or alternatively, "You are always playing The Game.") Whenever one thinks about…

April 27 2010, 7:11am | Comments
Bookmark The World Question Center 2010: How is the Internet Changing the Way…
Read any newspaper or magazine and you will notice the many flavors of the one big question that everyone is asking today. Or you can just stay on the page and…

January 8 2010, 9:55am | Comments
Bookmark Don Tapscott on the ways the Net Generation learn differently
The author of Grown Up Digital, Don Tapscott, refutes the belief that the internet is turning today's youth into "the dumbest generation". Tapscott illustrates how the net has changed the way…

September 29 2009, 11:27pm | Comments
Bookmark Thinking literally
Drawing on philosophy and linguistics, cognitive scientists have begun to see the basic metaphors that we use all the time not just as turns of phrase, but as keys to the…

September 28 2009, 8:59am | Comments
Bookmark 3quarksdaily Philosophy Competition (Judged by Daniel Dennet)
So, here it is, the final list that I am sending to Professor Dan Dennett, who will select the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prize winners: (in alphabetical order by blog name)…

September 13 2009, 8:37am | Comments
Bookmark The Art-Work of the Future
AS Man stands to Nature, so stands Art to Man. When Nature had developed in herself those attributes which included the conditions for the existence of Man, then Man spontaneously evolved.…

July 22 2009, 4:37pm | Comments
Bookmark What Skepticism Reveals about Science
“The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It’s all lies. But they’re entertaining lies, and in the end isn’t that the real truth? The…

June 24 2009, 3:26pm | Comments
Bookmark Fallacy of misplaced concreteness | Wikipedia
In the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, one commits the fallacy of misplaced concreteness when one mistakes an abstract belief, opinion or concept about the way things are for a physical…

March 12 2009, 6:08pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter New theories of Mimesis (in digital/hypertextual/ hypermedial cultures) I am looking for writings on mimesis in regards new, digital, hypertext and hypermedial technologies and cultures. I am following the redefinition of mimesis. From Plato's disregard of oral culture, through his mimesis of Socrates' dialogues in writing. Following Plato, Aristotle's theory was…

February 16 2009, 7:09am | Comments
Writing for Spacecollective The Total Library Project
Books that redefine reality - or - How to redefine the book...

January 29 2009, 2:58am | Comments
Ask Metafilter The Various Workings of a Cube-Shaped Gallery | Ask MetaFilter Imagine a cube-shaped building, with ten cube-shaped rooms along each side (10 rooms long, 10 high & 10 deep). Each cubular room has 4 walls, 1 ceiling and 1 floor. Each of the 6 interior surfaces in all 1000 cubular rooms is decorated…

April 25 2007, 3:39am | Comments

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