books on the mind, consciousness, cognitive science…
June 18, 2007
Author David Linden has a rich website and blog for his recent book on brain evolution, ‘The Accidental Mind.’ You can even print out notecards based on illustrations from the book!
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June 16, 2007
From Counterculture to Cyberculture by Fred Turner is my June pick for the Non-Fiction Five Challenge. (I’m about a third of the way….)
A google video search turns up a nice series of videos by the author talking about the book.
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June 14, 2007
Daniel B. Smith, author of ‘Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hallucination’ is scheduled to appear on the Colbert Report tonight (Comedy Central, 11:30p/10:30c).
June 13, 2007
June 12, 2007
I caught myself looking longingly at the fiction after a spate of nonfiction, so I picked up a copy of Glasshouse
In Stross’s future, memories can be erased, personalities edited, people regularly make back-up copies of themselves, and their minds can be placed in different bodies. Problems and issues such as these arise:
p 2 – “It’s tough, not being able to tell the difference between your own thoughts and a postsurgical identity prosthesis.”
p 15 – “Not wearing a face in public is a deliberate snub.”
The action soon moves to an experimental simulation of a ‘Dark Ages’ society (c. 1950-2040), which affords a look back at the present-day world from the future perspective.
At Stross’s website, www.accelerando.org, his earlier book Accelerando is available as a free ebook.
Author’s blog: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
