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20 Years Of Technological Progress
Posted on October 1, 2007 | No CommentsOn the left, what you needed to store 1GB of data in 1988. On the right, a tiny 1GB SD drive that’s already at least three generations old: So there you have it: over the course of 20 years, 1GB... -
Disturbingly, Quantitative Analysis May Have Methodological Shortcomings – Medical Studies Edition
Posted on September 14, 2007 | No CommentsFetishized social scientific methodologies from dissimilar fields are adapted by grant-hungry researchers and applied to unrepresentative samples of 18-21 year olds in large Midwestern universities before being coded by untrained and apathetic work studies – and you’re saying this doesn’t... -
Pentadic Ratios In The Rhetoric Of Addiction
Posted on September 12, 2007 | No CommentsThe Burkean pentad has a bad reputation for lending itself to cookie-cutter “this is the agent, this is the scene, etc” pseudo-book reports. But there are at least a couple of interesting ways to do pentadic analysis, one which is... -
A Peircean Checklist For Conscious Artificial Intelligence
Posted on September 11, 2007 | 1 CommentAnti-cognitivst curmudgeon David Gelernter has a sustained critique of digital AI in Technology Review: I believe it is hugely unlikely, though not impossible, that a conscious mind will ever be built out of software. Even if it could be, the... -
Cog Sci Blog Roundup
Posted on September 9, 2007 | No CommentsWe’ve got a couple posts in the hopper – a Peirce vs. Deleuze post (of all things) and a post about how scientific triumphalism empowering anti-science right and the left – but little time to clean them up right now.... -
The Psychoanalytic Pushback Against Philosophy Of Consciousness
Posted on September 3, 2007 | No CommentsStudies like that consciousness of bacteria one from a couple of days ago sometimes get appropriated for “see, humans aren’t all that special” kinds of moves. But everything rhetorical – everything that reserves a special place for the intersubjective relationship... -
Bacteria Seem To Be Doing A Lot Of Thinking These Days
Posted on August 27, 2007 | No CommentsPhysics is sometimes taken as the “hard problem” for rhetoric of science – if you can find rhetoric in physics, which is ostensibly the least rhetorical of the sciences, then you can find it in the other sciences too. In... -
Pre-Darwinian Empiricism Read Through Peirce
Posted on August 27, 2007 | 2 CommentsOn one hand, we’re always nervous about the “science doesn’t work the way scientists think it works” narrative – it sounds too much like a setup for the inevitable “also, science is just another narrative” punchline, and is kind of...
