Archive for the ‘consciousness’ Category

PsyArt: An Online Journal for the Psychological St…

May 7, 2007
PsyArt: An Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts.




“PsyArt is an online, peer-reviewed journal featuring articles using a psychological approach to the arts. We provide a rapid publication decision and a large and international readership. The journal is open to any psychology and any art, although PsyArt specializes in psychoanalytic psychology and literature or film.”

the ne plus ultra project: good memes for better g…

May 6, 2007
the ne plus ultra project: good memes for better genes


“…you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence, and the gift of revulsion against its implications…”

TED | Talks | Sir Martin Rees: Earth in its final …

April 16, 2007

TED | Talks | Sir Martin Rees: Earth in its final century? (video)


“…this uniquely crucial century…”

res-Qualia

March 22, 2007

res-Qualia

huge-entity"What is the book? What is mind? How …

March 22, 2007

huge-entity

“What is the book?
What is mind?
How can one bridge the two? “

Marvin Minsky:No one finds it surprising these da…

March 13, 2007


Marvin Minsky:

No one finds it surprising these days when we make machines that do logical things, because logic is based on clear, simple rules of the sorts that computers can easily use. But Love, by its nature, some people would say, cannot be explained in mechanical ways — nor could we ever make machines that possess any such human capacities as feelings, emotions, and consciousness…”

“…emotional states are not especially different from the processes that we call ‘thinking’…”(p.6)


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