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• All the best Amazon bargains are right here
  on May 14, 2011
  If you want great reviews on TV, laptops, cameras and MP3 players then please visit us here...
• The Window To The Soul
  on Feb 25, 2010 in human brain philosophy behaviour
  We are told that body language is the key to what we are really thinking, that we should watch what people do with their hands, or the way they're standing, if we are to cut through the layers of ambiguity inherent in what is coming out of their mout...
• The Seemingly Unexplainable
  on Feb 14, 2010 in philosophy of mind language consciousness
  In this video, Daniel Dennett discusses the necessity of 'deflating' consciousness in order to make it eligible for scientific explanation. By deflating, he means removing the facets of our perception whereby consciousness is left untouchable to the...
• The Eschaton As Data Loss
  on Feb 5, 2010 in apocalypse information technology
  Given the fact that our lives are largely controlled by databases these days, whether they be administered by governments, banks or retailers; it stands to reason that the loss or degradation of this data could be quite catastrophic.As Tom Simonite a...
• Eschaton As Data Loss
  on Feb 3, 2010 in apocalypse information technology
  Given the fact that our lives are largely governed by databases these days, whether they be administered by governments, banks, retailers or any other kind of professional body that stores God knows how much information about us, it stands to reason...
• The Problem Of Thought
  on Jan 29, 2010 in philosophy of mind consciousness
  One of the hardest tasks for researchers of consciousness, aside from providing a suitable definitive explanation for the term itself, is to try and explain how it might be constructed. Philosophers of mind have generally had a very difficult time in...
• Generative Aesthetics
  on Jan 24, 2010 in aesthetics generative software
  I've recently become a little bit obsessed with Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers' iPhone app Trope. This beautiful little piece of generative software demonstrates a concept that Eno especially had admitted to have been fascinated by for a long time... t...
• Is Freedom So Important? Part 1
  on Jan 21, 2010 in free will evolution singularity
  "Natural selecton is an explosion of evitability"So said Daniel Dennett in trying to explain that free will may not necessarily be diametrically opposed to determinism. As a 'compatibilist' he asserts that the possibility of free will evolves, in its...
• The Science of Consciousness
  on Jan 19, 2010 in philosophy consciousness
  "While neural activity of a certain kind is a necessary condition for every manifestation of consciousness, from the lightest sensation to the most exquisitely constructed sense of self, it is neither a sufficient condition of it, nor, still less, is...
• Fluid Mechanics
  on Jan 13, 2010 in Artificial Intelligence computing
  John Searle's Chinese Room argument has been criticised as an "absurd thought experiment that panders to false intuitions, and has done nothing but sidetrack philosophers for decades".He asserted that computers may very well be able to emulate human...

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