Categories Archives: things of interest

“The Brain on Trial”

Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/07/the-brain-on-trial/8520/1/ Highlights below, but it’s a short read and I very much recommend it. “Patients with frontotemporal dementia commonly end up in courtrooms, where their lawyers, doctors, and embarrassed adult children must explain to the judge that the violation was not the perpetrator’s fault, exactly: much of the brain has degenerated, and medicine offers [...]

Cute philosophy paper

http://philpapers.org/archive/DIETIN.1.pdf Written by: Eric Dietrich Summary: “There is much more work to do on points of view, work that is required before the weirdness that is philosophy can be explained and understood. But we now know this much: In philosophy, clashing points of view are ineluctable, and their existence is the only truth. Thus philosophy [...]

your life is a performance

What is does not concern me. What “is” is a list of facts: a continually out-of-date and explosively expanding reference guide to the always elusive moment of “now”. My body is used to determine what’s going on right now; I’ve got sight, sound, and lots of other neat receptors. The body is like the multi-tool of [...]