Speedlinking 2/20/08
[NOTE: After a week away, Speedlinking is back. However, as I am incredibly busy of late, the daily links might not be so daily. I'll do what I can to keep up.] Quote of the... More »
[NOTE: After a week away, Speedlinking is back. However, as I am incredibly busy of late, the daily links might not be so daily. I'll do what I can to keep up.] Quote of the... More »
Quote of the day : "In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress." ~... More »
An interesting, though brief, defense of mind and soul from the onslaught of rationalist, reductionist models that "computerize" the brain and discard the idea of consciousness. But Searle's concept of "intentionality" still is not sufficient... More »
This is from The Times (UK) online edition. With the death of many "greats" this year, from philosophy to film, Appleyard wonders if we have seen the end of greatness. He thinks not, and names... More »
Edge 's 2008 question is, " What Have You Changed Your Mind About? " Major thinkers from a wide variety of fields weight in with their answers, which is always interesting. Here are a few... More »
Quote of the day : "Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know." ~ Cullen Hightower Image of the day ( Tad Bowman ): BODY ~ It Looked... More »
Quote of the day : "Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable." ~ H. L. Mencken Image of the day : BODY ~ The Mobility-Stability Continuum --... More »
John Stoehr, arts editor for the Charleston City Paper , has written a rather interesting blogpost on the need for " The New Intellectuals ." He rejects the post-modernism that he was exposed to as... More »
Paul Davies (Arizona State University physicist) is my kind of crazy. Davies doesn't like the currently vogue idea of the multiverse as an explanation of why we are here (in an infinite multiverse scenario, at... More »
Any time writers use the word "god," even in a creative piece, they do so at their own risk. God is such a loaded word in this culture, especially with the recent rise of atheism... More »