Archive for April, 2005
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Friday, April 29th, 2005The Unobserved Loneliness of Abstracted Faces
Tuesday, April 26th, 2005
liftftg
Saturday, April 23rd, 2005liftftg
I had this weird dream in which a mathematician told me to look up the word “liftftg” in the dictionary. The dictionary said that a liftftg is a thing that is not an argument but nonetheless has the force of an argument. I asked the mathematician if a poem could be a liftftg.
He said “yes.”
Blow up the ocean
Friday, April 22nd, 2005Today is Earth Day. Earth Day is stupid.
Pave the world, I'm going to space.
Aerial Minirobots
Friday, April 22nd, 2005Way cool
http://www.laps.univ-mrs.fr/~viollet/22.htm
Yes, those are propellers.
Le robot OSCAR by Stéphane Viollet
Smax Attax Photo Contest
Friday, April 22nd, 2005Smax Attax Photo Contest
Prize: one year flickr pro account
Winner: The photographer who posts their best photograph in a response to this post by May 1, 2005
Judge:
Rules/eligibility:
- You must have a flickr free account
- You must be my LJ friend
- You must have taken the photograph yourself
- reserves the right to alter the rules at any time
- Questioning the rules or any of 's capricious alterations will automatically disqualify you
- Requests for clarification will count as instances of questioning and be treated accordingly
<lj user="spasmsproject"> suggested the name "Twyla"
Wednesday, April 20th, 2005
Robot and photo by Pete Mandik
Statistically Improbable Phrases
Monday, April 18th, 2005Amazon.com's list of Statistically Improbable Phrases from Philosophy and the Neurosciences: A Reader:
narcissistic properties, representation producing processes, detection thesis, activation triplets, intertheoretic relations, explanatory pluralism, content bearers, messy properties, intrinsic representations, extrinsic representations, allocentric representations, intertheoretic reduction, reference fixers, route framework, sensory system functions, cortical visual pathways, egocentric representations, red experiences, neuron doctrine, prestriate cortex, pictorial perspective, perceptual symbols, middle temporal visual area, stimulus temperature, lesion research
In other news, Hebrew Neuron Parts:
West Side
Monday, April 18th, 2005
zif2
Sunday, April 17th, 2005
I am Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Coordinator of the Cognitive Science Laboratory at William Paterson University in New Jersey. This blog largely concerns my interests in the Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Neuroscience, but also contains evidence of my messing around with art, photography, fiction, and robotics. Find out way more about me and my work