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Category Archives: Cognition
Convention over logic: Limits of implicature
Evening News 24 – Refuse fire near City Hall Arsonists sparked an emergency response after setting light to a rubbish container near City Hall on Saturday evening. The suspects started the fire shortly after 7pm on St Giles Street. Two … Continue reading
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Utility of prejudice: Reducing freedom to cognition and vice versa
Quote Details: William Hazlitt: Without the aid of… – The Quotations Page Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room. William Hazlitt English essayist (1778 – 1830) It’s always disconcerting … Continue reading
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Perspectives, views and child cognition
Media Blog on National Review Online What the BBC is telling children about the 9/11 attacks [Tom Gross] Here is what the BBC’s widely-read children’s section of their website (CBBC) is telling kids about the 9/11 attacks, the 6th anniversary … Continue reading
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Cognition, information, knowledge and the limits of serial computing
BBC – Radio 4 – Today Programme Listen Again 11 Sept 2007 08:50 It’s the 50th anniversary of the British Computer Society. But what can we expect over the next half century? Will our levels of dependence on the internet … Continue reading
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Poetry in blogs and cognitive persistence
Just Say No “Nonetheless I took the tomatoes away.” This is only partially a hermeneutic post. It’s so rare to see poetry in blogs (unless they’re poets’ blogs which I don’t read) but this last line in a post, turned … Continue reading
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Lol cats and conventionalization of semiotic systems
Anil Dash: Cats Can Has Grammar The core behavior has existed for some time; “Image macro” is a generic term for this kind of folk art, and cats have always featured heavily in these types of Internet in-jokes. But a … Continue reading
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Searching for coherence in high-stakes utterances
YouTube – Miss Teen USA 2007 – South Carolina answers a question Miss Teen USA 2007 – Ms. South Carolina answers a question [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww----escape_autolink_uri:efabb21a47c1067747e8492a93007103---- It is all too easy to make fun of speakers like this. But most commenters on … Continue reading
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Folk theories of conceptual causality and collective autonomy
Film examines Daily Mail ‘diet’ | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited In the footsteps of Supersize Me, a documentary-maker has attempted to find out whether we are what we read by giving up all news sources except the Daily Mail. … Continue reading
Girl Wars, Boy Wars
The Girl Wars : Terrible Mother on Offsprung.com It seems like half the interactions between women can be classified as Girl Wars. Do we ever get out of this? And why the hell are girls so vicious to each other? … Continue reading
Bill O’Reilly on the 8:05 from Brighton
‘Bourne’ flick is ultimately un-American – Opinion & Editorial – BostonHerald.com I knew this movie was trouble when I read the reviews. Almost all the critics liked it. The only way American movie critics would like a violent car-chase film … Continue reading