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Friday, April 13, 2012
Saturday, April 7, 2012
HAL's Error
To err is human and non-human.
Is error in brain circuitry a precondition of imagination and creativity?
The human brain is soft-wired. The brain's wiring is mushy; it is not in the main metallic; if the brain is a machine, it is - in part - a biological machine, a biological mechanism. (The brain is also chemical, electrical, magnetic, etc. Yes?)
Is it the following the case?: The mushiness of the brain's circuitry helps to explain why non-deterministic human reasoning is possible, why human thoughts and reasoning can burst outside preexisting channels?
But to explain fully the possibility of non-deterministic (non-deductive?) human thought processes -- imagination and creativity -- is it also necessary to suppose that thoughts that burst outside of established circuitry produce a kind of somewhat disordered complexity and chaos? I don't know. But I have a suspicion. (Yes.)
Friday, April 6, 2012
Good Friday, Dark Friday
Good Friday. Almost midnight here. Important day to (some? all?) Christians. Dark day, dark night. But Easter is only a few hours away. Resurrection. Powerful. What does this day, this night, mean to non-Christians? I don't know. Perhaps, probably, the day, this night, means little or nothing to many people. But it means something to at least some agnostics. I think of Leonard Cohen, whose songs are full of religious imagery, Christian imagery.
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Saturday, March 31, 2012
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
Dutch Mobile "Euthanasia Units"
Tillers: Is it necessary to have mobile euthanasia units if mobile pain medication units are available?
- Is part of the reasoning of some people in Holland that it's sometimes cheaper to kill people -- particularly very sick people -- than to medicate them?
Kate Connelly, Dutch mobile euthanasia units to make house calls , The Guardian (March 1, 2012).
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Monday, January 9, 2012
Beezow Zopittybop-bop-bop
"He'd better watch out or he'll make a bad name for himself. Or maybe he already has.
Source: Brendan O'Brien Zopittybop-bop-bop arrested near Wisconsin Capitol (Reuters, Jan. 9, 2012).
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"Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-bop-bop, 30, was expected to be charged on Monday with possession of marijuana and a knife, as well as a probation violation following the Wisconsin's man's arrest in a park near the state Capitol, police said.
"Zopittybop-bop-bop -- formerly Jeffrey Drew Wilschke before a state court approved his name change request in November -- was arrested on Thursday afternoon in a park less than a mile from the Capitol in Madison after police received complaints from neighbors."
Source: Brendan O'Brien Zopittybop-bop-bop arrested near Wisconsin Capitol (Reuters, Jan. 9, 2012).
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Imperturbable Birds with Largely-Indecipherable Noggins
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