One of the questions that have plagued my insomniac nights over the past decade or so is what makes something interesting. There are many proposals.…
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My talk online
I recently gave a fuller version of my talk “Comprehension as Compression”, and I placed the slideshow on Slideshare. You may also download the PDF:
1 CommentA talk on understanding
I will be presenting this one at ISHPSSSB in Oslo in a couple of weeks. Comments and objections received with the usual ill grace…
2 Comments50 words for snow 7: taxing attacks on taxa
We should consider in each case what Question it is that is proposed, and what answer to it would, in the instance before us, be…
1 Comment50 words for snow 6: constructing phenomena
Series Conceptual confusion The economics of cultural categories What are phenomena? What counts as sociocultural? Species Constructing phenomena Explanations and phenomena There is a naive…
1 CommentCloset Darwinism, and definitions
Every so often, somebody makes the case that โDarwinismโ, โDarwinistโ and โDarwinianโ, being the generic noun, the individual term, and the adjective of Darwinโs name…
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