What, Why & How do we Know ?
I’ve now read the whole of Part 1 of “The Matter With Things”, including but not just the summaries. As advertised it is a thorough collection and organisation of scientific and empirical evidence and argument for left and right hemisphere dysfunctions and their interconnections, genetic and physical, indicating their quite distinct “normal” roles, hemispherically deficient … Continue reading “Is McGilchrist Getting Ahead of Himself?”
[Latest Updates: Initial impressions on receiving the book. Thoughts on completing Part1 Thoughts on completing Part2 A review on completing Part3 & the whole. And – START HERE – a final / introduction & summary.] Iain McGilchrist’s new 2-volume book was published earlier this week – I’ve not yet received my copy and was unable … Continue reading “The Matter With Things – Iain McGilchrist”
An excellent, short (10m), animation of a lecture by Iain McGilchrist. (Hat tip to David Morey on Facebook for the link.) Blogged several references to reading McGilchrist’s “The Master and his Emissary” but never wrote a complete review in one post – It so knocked me out, it led me into other connected readings immediately. … Continue reading “McGilchrist’s Divided Brain”
I mentioned in a “note to self” post back in 2021 that I was looking forward to the publication of Emily Herring’s biography of Henri Bergson “Herald of a Restless World – How Henri Bergson brought philosophy to the people“ Emily Herring (2024) Posted a review on Goodreads: I already had some appreciation of the significance … Continue reading “Bergson – Herald of a Restless World”
Dave Snowden posted on his LinkedIn Feed “tongue in cheek and with mischievous intent” “North Atlantic Buddhism, gurus & cybernetics on the one hand with Daoism (& its interaction with Confucianism), distributed intelligence & complexity on the other.” Weirdly my last post, 2 days ago, mentioned Dave in the context of Cybernetics vs all the … Continue reading “Dichotomies, False or Otherwise?”
[Holding post now updated(*)] Philip Goff (oft referenced here for his attempt at panpsychism) has been quiet for a while. I thought he had actually been ill / injured a couple of months ago, but for whatever the reason, his deep thinking opportunity has led him to Christianity – a heretical form he says. An … Continue reading “Heretic or Mainstream?”
This is a version of my Rules of Engagement / Rules of Discourse page. Being updated to make it more explicitly obvious that these are also the rules of free-speech, more generally than lip-service to “freeze peach”. The mantra being parroted by followers of Elon Musk – topical in 2024 because he made it his … Continue reading “The Rules of Freeze Peach”
Having started this blog in 2001 (a couple of days after 9/11) I’ve freely acknowledged, and made many references to, the fact that reading Robert Pirsig shortly after that in January 2002, was a game changer for me in terms of the direction of my research thinking, reading and writing. I’d started the research blog … Continue reading “Hidden Pirsig Influences”
This should probably be three or four separate posts, but after a two week hiatus – the ISSS conference in Washington DC and another week touring the wider DC, MD, VA, DE, Chesapeake area – I have so much not written over and above the writing project I’ve already stalled until after my next US … Continue reading “Dear Diary – June 2024 – Systems, USA and Tyranny”
More than half-way through May and I’ve not posted since the last weekend in April . Distracted by several things since the Robert Pirsig Association’s inaugural #ZMM50th anniversary Chautauqua on Sunday 28th. Partly just reflection time on where next (?) for the RPA and taking the weather-window opportunity (at last) for garden chores and walking … Continue reading “May 2024 Half-Way Update”