October 2011
7 posts
Evolutionary Psychology: A One Act Play
Evolutionary Psychologists: The real motive behind [some behaviour] is [some Darwinist benefit]!
Other People: That’s so conceptually confused!
Evolutionary Psychologists: That’s why we never said it!
More Towards "Experimental Literature for Nerds"
A simple point that people forget to explain to outsiders about the consumption of random/plain/goofy/noisy artifacts is that it’s not the random/plain/goofy/noisy artifact that is doing the work but the 3000 years long acummulation of techniques for attentively scrutizing objects (which developed as a corollary of 3000 years of creating objects that intuitively solicit* new forms of...
My Favorite-Ever Things Today
Song: Après Moi
Poem: Ursonate
Book: Bouvard et Pécuchet
There's a Play About That Right?
I imagine mathematicians like the ancients imagined shepherds.
Had a Burst of Crazy in the Midst of Studying for...
“Just to explain what the — I think — possible alternative view is: One could theorize that suffering/pleasure is a gestalt that modulates an experience. So the idea would be, rather than that new experiences bring new pleasure, that new pleasures bring new experiences (i.e., that liking experiences you didn’t like before involves/creates novel modulations of the...
Illumination!
Jay-Z lyrics are so much like that song “hey boy, crazy boy” from West Side Story.
Long Week
Unsure re: the amount of things in heaven and earth. (Like, the amount of discourses that are sufficiently non-arbitrary.)
