Not for the faint-hearted, but a new take on an old philosophical argument from David Chalmers on the knowable and the actual.
Month: September 2010
Follow the Money – Network Style
Kevin Kelley’s thoughts on intermediaries creating value and earning money at the nano-penny per node level.
Creating Your Enemy
Interesting interview with John LeCarre. We’re as guilty as each other, though in general we are more open and honest about what goes on in reality, but there is an important difference between the US and Europe or Russia. Couldn’t help thinking of T Boone Pickens words at last week’s conference – default US position to simply treat everyone else as “the enemy”.
The Eyes Have It
I have a small collection of Niqab photos … they can be very err… sexy. Something I see the producers of Sex and the City 2 seem to agree on (great film by the way). Article here on Moslem women’s choices in headgear. Nothing wrong with tradition (recognized as such), nor religious freedom (with responsibility), provided practical choices are possible …. for eating and identification and communication. I’ve supported “bans” in the sense I support society’s right to ask for its removal for identification and communication – the oft excluded middle again. Obscuring one’s face is not a “right”.
Withholding Grades
Not a lot new here either, but the withholding grades item caught my eye – the crux of Pirsig’s original teaching experiment in defining Quality.
Smart to Say “I Don’t Know”
BBC Magazine story. Not a new subject, the excluded middle often contains the greater value.