07 May 2013
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
What do trees, brains, and pants have in common? Kevin, Stephen, John Elliott, and Matt Epperson explore our complex world through the works of Manuel Lima.
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Amazon, Amsterdam, Anatta, brain, Buddhism, Charles C. Mann, complex networks, complexity, connectome, consciousness, cyborgs, data, data visualization, dialup, Dunbar's Number, education, emergence, Facebook, functionalism, Google Fiber, identity, Inca, individualism, intelligence, Janet Jackson, John Elliott, Kevin, Leonhard Euler, Manuel Lima, Matt Epperson, memory, Monkeysphere, network visualization, New Hampshire, philosophy of mind, rhizome, Royal Society of the Arts, self-awareness, SkyNet, Star Wars, Stephen, stock market, The Internet, The Power of Networks, Traveling Salesman Problem, trees, Visual Complexity
19 January 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Imagine if falling in love was as easy as taking a pill. Scary? Exciting? Kind of rad? Well, to make up for the distinct lack of anything resembling actual philosophy last week, we decided to delve straight into this and other hardcore questions, courtesy of George Saunders and his recent short story in The New […]
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Anathem, apocalypse, Battlefield Earth, brain, connectome, consequentialism, Cryptonomicon, deontology, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, drugs, emotion, Escape from Spiderhead, ethics, experimentation, George Saunders, harm principle, identity theory, Kevin, love, MLK Day, Neal Stephenson, Panera Bread, personal identity, phenomenology, Philip K. Dick, philosophy of mind, psychotropic drugs, Rifftrax, science, scientology, sex, Snow Crash, Stephen, The Baroque Cycle, The Giver, The New Yorker, zombies
