Archive for February, 2012

Favorite Films (No. 3)

Friday, February 24, 2012 19:30 No Comments

Once again, more than two years have passed since I last time I wrote one of these posts. Check out the first of these from back in 2007 here and my update from 2009 here. All the usual caveats apply: favorite films are not best films and the date that this post is made has [...]

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Blindsight

Monday, February 13, 2012 3:18 3 Comments

One of the QT3 and now Broken Forum regulars mentioned Peter Watts’ novel Blindsight in passing in the dualism / nature of consciousness thread I’d previously referenced. This was when the discussion turned to the subject of p-zombies and it turns out this novel has a thing or two to say on that particular topic. [...]

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The Book of Eli

Wednesday, February 8, 2012 16:38 3 Comments

I was probably among the earliest to hear about this film if only because the story was written by Gary Whitta, a prominent QT3 member, and he posted about the project years before it made it onto the silver screen. It sounded like a standard Hollywood action movie, with some religious overtones that I usually [...]

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On qualia and free will

Sunday, February 5, 2012 16:33 1 Comment

Since the QT3 community splintered, I find that I’ve been spending more time on the erstwhile refugee forum, Broken Forum, recently. While QT3 isn’t exactly dead, it does feel that Broken Forum has more interesting stuff now and the Politics & Religion subforum feels more pleasant and less pointlessly antagonistic. Anyway, the subject of mind/body [...]

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Recent Interesting Science Articles (Jan ’12)

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 2:40 No Comments

The first month of 2012 has been a good month for interesting reads of all kinds, not just science ones, but this series is all about the science, so here goes: Scientific American reports on a clever experiment which attempts to shed light on how multicellular organisms evolved. These have always been a bit of [...]

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