Reading, Writing, Thinking: Just Selfish Means of Survival?
on Oct 15, 2008 in Neuroscience Abstraction Human Human brain Natural selection Brain mind The other day I was thinking to myself in one of my many imagined conversations with someone (could be anyone, really; a colleague, the wooden head, my alter ego, whomever or whatever), that the act of reading is an act of creativity, almost brutal i...

The Evolution of the Sense of Touch: Questions, Ideas, Etc.
on Oct 15, 2008 in James Lovelock Climate change Environment Evolution Life Gaia Earth The sense of touch has with it two aspects that I understand… the sense of texture and hardness, and the sense of temperature. Perhaps there are other aspects… pain? I relegate this to both texture/hardness and temperature. Now, what if it were p...

Music to a Deaf Man
on Oct 15, 2008 in Music Sound Arts If I were born deaf, I would never understand sound, or music. I might be able to understand it inasmuch as vibration, for if someone were to strike the strings of a guitar I could see the vibration of the strings and I could place my hand on the woo...

Thoughts on Active Reading and the Lure of Insanity
on Oct 15, 2008 in Reading mind Reading by itself, I don’t think, is sufficient enough to build the vocabulary and expand the mind and the intellect and the mental processes, not even the active reading that Adler recommends in his book on reading. I think it takes not only activ...

Philosophy of Mind and Neuronal Configurations
on Oct 15, 2008 in Neural network Neuron Artificial neural network Brain Artificial intelligence I’ve been reading more about the Philosophy of Mind. Although its odd that I cannot discuss it here. I am getting from it now that like a computer, the processing of language or symbols, etc., cannot be observed in the brain, but through brain ch...

What is Truth
on Oct 15, 2008 in George W Bush truth logic Proposition: "George W. Bush is president of the United States of America." This is a statement of truth, but is it not a relative truth? That is, we can believe that in 10 years, for instance, he will not be the President of the United States

On Epistemology
on Oct 15, 2008I've recently been studying Epistemology (the theory of knowledge and how we obtain it) by reading a book entitled "Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge," by Robert Audi. This book is one in the Routledge Co