tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post7984925000120816851..comments2024-02-16T05:17:21.690-05:00Comments on No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons (Reloaded).: The View From The LeftPeter Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06160557746794936786noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-18165948486781586472007-10-26T03:25:00.000-04:002007-10-26T03:25:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-78976951927576136622007-10-18T00:46:00.000-04:002007-10-18T00:46:00.000-04:00"Would they serve up a Theory of Everything?"I don...<I>"Would they serve up a Theory of Everything?"</I><BR/>I don't believe it. ;)<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/23/national/23believers.html" REL="nofollow">Scientists Speak Up on Mix of God and Science</A> (August 2005)<BR/><A HREF="http://www.sciammind.com/article.cfm?articleID=434D7C62-E7F2-99DF-37CC9814533B90D7" REL="nofollow">Searching for God in the Brain</A> (October 2007)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-27534560673327793742007-10-12T19:12:00.000-04:002007-10-12T19:12:00.000-04:00Sorry, had my browser's font too large, evelyn had...Sorry, had my browser's font too large, evelyn had included the full URI, I just couldn't see the end of it because Blogger's spacings are fixed width and deal poorly with long lines of text.xbathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08356195233888867529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-81001846959992481872007-10-12T18:59:00.000-04:002007-10-12T18:59:00.000-04:00I think evelyn meant this thing.The article itself...I think evelyn meant <A HREF="http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html" REL="nofollow">this thing</A>.<BR/><BR/>The article itself is rubbish, but it's still cool how the figure seems to switch directions every time one glances away. It's the hopping off the floor that does it -- you can't tell the direction of rotation from the relative height of the feet, which would xbathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08356195233888867529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-68958053573340262872007-10-11T17:38:00.000-04:002007-10-11T17:38:00.000-04:00http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,225...http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html<BR/><BR/>Optical illusion supposedly to determine brain hemisphere preference.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-27588920382677069242007-10-11T15:28:00.000-04:002007-10-11T15:28:00.000-04:00Interesting thoughts Peter.I was exposed to a lot ...Interesting thoughts Peter.<BR/><BR/>I was exposed to a lot of poorly-informed left-brained/right-brained/hare-brained dreck during my education as an artist.<BR/><BR/>My highschool art teacher was adamant that all art came from the right hemisphere. I'm sure she got the idea from a book called "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain", which remains hugely popular, despite its gimmicky nature. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-8408519386354948382007-10-10T14:03:00.000-04:002007-10-10T14:03:00.000-04:00Nothing 'remembers stuff pretty much as it happen...Nothing 'remembers stuff pretty much as it happens' it's all constructed and an interpretation. We begin processing info in the retina and dont stop. <BR/><BR/>But it makes sense that the left hemispere is searching for originality rather than using the relatively tried and tested ways of seeing the world.scarfellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08738091360266081083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-76005491803229150382007-10-10T14:01:00.000-04:002007-10-10T14:01:00.000-04:00andrewandrewscarfellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08738091360266081083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-32926928260046528992007-10-10T12:57:00.000-04:002007-10-10T12:57:00.000-04:00PS: Why are you watching The View?PS: Why are you watching The View?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-74603421817575976322007-10-10T12:53:00.000-04:002007-10-10T12:53:00.000-04:00What causes someone to have a stronger left/right ...What causes someone to have a stronger left/right brain? Or is that even possible with the lateral-parallel- processor model you mentioned? What side is responsible for the balance and choice of the two sides? I often contemplate things on a philosophical level but I also often don't care. I don't believe most things I read/hear/see until I can see the numbers add up. My thought process is Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-50131613038949232792007-10-10T10:45:00.000-04:002007-10-10T10:45:00.000-04:00Kick the fundies in their heads hard enough and ma...Kick the fundies in their heads hard enough and maybe a few will survive and won't become vegetables, keeping their intellects intact, but with their religious cargo jettisoned outside their ears.<BR/>Sounds like a plan.<BR/><BR/>I hereby announce its name: "Fundie Stomping Day".cow_2001https://www.blogger.com/profile/14096806199197429766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-19294245075235688782007-10-10T02:03:00.000-04:002007-10-10T02:03:00.000-04:00See, now this is why I read this blog. Left-brain/...See, now this is why I read this blog. Left-brain/right-brain synthesis, ranks upon ranks of gnoso-glossiolating monks, automatic science if you like :D<BR/><BR/>PS<BR/>Man, Portal seems to be fucking crazy and way out of my mental league. I was mentally blocked on Tetris for Random Deity's sake; how the hell am I supposed to cope with custom sidesteps behind the scenes of three-dimensional razorsmilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17741327069258643030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-50452640333172885622007-10-10T00:15:00.000-04:002007-10-10T00:15:00.000-04:00Oh yeah, and The Orange Box goes live in 3 hours. ...Oh yeah, and The Orange Box goes live in 3 hours. Will <I>you</I> be thinking with portals?ARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09695255436104873832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-16713136473280488132007-10-10T00:02:00.000-04:002007-10-10T00:02:00.000-04:00I can see why this might work out the way it did. ...I can see why this might work out the way it did. I imagine the ability to perceive order leads to a psychological drive to put things in orderly terms, because doing so is adaptive. Eventually, this drive becomes very powerful indeed as intellect becomes increasing sophisticated and complex and members of genus Homo continue competing with the intellects of rivals. Now, however, you have the ARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09695255436104873832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-65367665576573991032007-10-09T23:55:00.000-04:002007-10-09T23:55:00.000-04:00Sounds like a good concept to work on, specially l...Sounds like a good concept to work on, specially liked the idea of the group of monks speaking tongues, infused me with so much imaginery, from Snow Crash, to Blindsight, to Dresden Codak.---https://www.blogger.com/profile/17091600252815838398noreply@blogger.com