no peanuts in church…

"You might as well face the music. You've tried everything else…" -Sun Ra.


science!

  • on the artiface of intelligence…

    Had one of those early-morning, overly vivid dreams: Two pairs of perfectly human-looking robots (they were ‘robots’ in the dream, not ‘androids’, so let’s use that word here). And these were Manichaean robots, apparently: One pair felt ‘good’– or at least I was supposed to feel more sympathetic towards them– and the other pair were ‘bad’. Continue reading

  • feelings, nothing more…

    Andrew Sullivan has apparently chosen neuroscience as a pet topic for the past few weeks. Key quote: Without religion or a shared culture, science has assumed a role it is not qualified to play: a judgment of the whole, not just of its relevant area of inquiry. Don’t get me wrong: science is a vital Continue reading