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My new book is 'Media and the Power of Knowledge'. It is partly based on lectures I've given over the last 15 years. It updates McLuhan for the age of @X: futurespodcast.net/events/media-p…
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As you get older, it becomes more important to read new stuff -- not just to learn what younger people are saying but also how what's been forgotten clarifies their thinking, for better or worse. And it really can go either way.
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Thinkers often become more interesting when others are talking about them, but not when they are simply cited in an academic paper to pay the toll to the journal, discipline, etc., for publication. That's the difference between the productive and unproductive use of knowledge.
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You could run an entire ethics course on this tweet.
The difference between me & the rest? I do not flinch from THE TRUTH, no matter your view of me
Brand was found guilty by @Channel4 His accusers face no penalty. All those besotted by him, now running for cover
*cockroach column approved for The Sun by @StigAbell @TimesRadio
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This is true. The influence of Gestalt psychology remains greatly underrated because it got buried under US Behaviorism once the key European psychologists made the transatlantic crossing.
Gestalt psychology was part of the foundation of Macy conferences on cybernetics in the 1940-50's
Gestalt psychology was part of the development of AI (as noted by McCorduck in her 1970's oral history; journal below)
Gestalt psychology will play a key role in the post-LLM ligence
Bookmark it.
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Ironically, the chair of this select committee got himself in a bit of a pickle with sex and drugs: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Vaz
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Sometimes I think Stewart Lee's modus operandi is to turn Samuel Beckett into a comedy night fixture.
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Gilbert Ryle famously distinguished two ways some verbs can be understood: (1) as a task; (2) as an achievement. My own example is 'to translate'. If we treated 'to believe' similarly, then we can legitimize 'to believe in God' in sense (1) without sense (2).
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Steve Fuller retweeted
The most unsettling thing isn't that AI has learned to make art like us. It's that we've been making AI-like art for centuries. The Baroque is perhaps the most obvious example.
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Is this kind of defence more reason to think that Mark Fisher was just an artefact of our recent past?
1. Mark Fisher's "Exiting the Vampire Castle" was not primarily about defending Russell Brand
2. It was an incisive critique of the political culture of large sections of the middle class dominated British-anglo left
3. Most of it's key insights remain valid and apt
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Dennett is right, of course. But perhaps Block had doubts because he reads 'blurry' as possibly standing for some neutral monist concept of 'vague', which William James seem to have?
A very interesting question about consciousness Daniel Dennett once put to Ned Block: Do we have trouble seeing certain things because they're blurry? Or do they appear blurry because we have trouble seeing them?
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While I don't buy everything that @garyseconomics says, he's right to be indignant about people questioning his 'credentials': msn.com/en-gb/news/oth…
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When we say that certain ideas were necessary for others to follow, we sometimes mean that had the later ideas came first, those earlier ideas would never have happened. E.g., if Marx had his way, there wouldn't have been social contract theory. Make of that what you will.
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