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Yes, we have a soul. But it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
I just happened to stumble upon FretDFire’s first blog entry which launched me off into a flurry of searches on Daniel C Dennet. He wrote a book called Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, which seems to contain...
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I am a strange, sordid loop
I am reading Douglas Hofstadter’s amazing and brain churning I Am a Strange Loop, so I’m noticing loops and recursion everywhere. This dog machine loop is fascinating, I think it is a way for tennis...
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Books: James Gleick’s “The Information: a history, a theory, a flood”
I just started reading “The Information “, and the beginning has some very interesting passages that support Julian Jayne’s theory in “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral...
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Darrick’s Geothermal Adventure
Darrick is a buddy from up in Rochester. He’s doing something which is the heart and soul of blogging. He’s taking a minor adventure from his life, and chronicling it for the people who care: I’d like...
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Consciousness is a scale, not a binary
When my son Max was born, my sense of who I am blossomed to include this tiny wet lump screaming flesh. He is me, more important than the part that goes to work in Manhattan. But he didn’t do a whole...
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