- Everything MPs say in the House of Commons – read and attach comments
- Peterme.com on making stuff easy to use
- Cosma Shalizi’s notebooks
- alittlepoison.com
- Small bit of BBS commentary by Dennet on the multiple drafts theory of consciousness
- TMS induced savantism (would be nice but i’ll wait till they’ve published somewhere credible)
- Bad Thoughts by Jamie Whyte – readers’ comments and the author’s replies
- Cooperation, Secret Handshakes, and Imitation in the Prisoners’ Dilemma
- Literature, Cognition & the Brain
- Brains, Minds, and Texts, A Review of Mark Turner’s ‘The Literary Mind’ – a cognitivist literary theory? ‘Scholars of the future age may well find amusement in the pretensions of one English professor after another to solve the riddles of human agency, subject formation, language acquisition, and consciousness, with little or no awareness of the spectacular developments in psychology, linguistics, philosophy of mind, and neuroscience that form the central story of Anglo-American intellectual life from the 1950s to the present’
- Brain Quotes, from ‘Neuroscience for Kids’
- ‘Life, the universe…and nothing’- Bryan Appleyard on Francis Crick and the ‘secret of life’
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One reply on “Links for 4th August 2004”
Re: ‘brains, minds and texts’: Reading this reminded me of the earlier points by Clarkey and Me about the importance of Narrative structure to cognition: I wonder if this reference from the review sheds any light:
Jerry Hobbs, (1990); Roger C. Schank, Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Intelligence (Evanston: Northewestern UP, 1995).