Posted on December 31, 2019
by Alex V. Weir
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Isn’t it interesting or perhaps more fittingly alarming that we have precious few markers of passage? A letter is such a finite thing. Perhaps no more finite than a tweet but certainly more tangibly finite. Because the leaf, the bit of tree, it will…
Category: Alex Weir, Current Events, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Commentary, Technology, UncategorizedTags: Cognition, Essays, Ideas, Memory, Mortality, Musings, Time
Posted on December 25, 2019
by Alex V. Weir
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I’m a simple man with a simple lager and proabably should tackle less complicated things. But the more I drink the less I fear looking like an idiot. So….here goes… https://www.pnas.org/content/116/10/3948 “Modularity refers to the idea that mental phenomena arise from the operation of…
Category: Alex Weir, Humor, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Commentary, The Fractal Journal, Uncategorized, VlogTags: Cognition, Damasio, Fodor, Homunculus, Modularity, Neuroscience, Parallel Distributed Processing, Philosophy and Science, PNAS, Science
Posted on September 23, 2017
by Alex V. Weir
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Musings of a Hound The ‘ring of truth’ is still just an after effect… Or The case for print and excessive subtitles! The news often ruins my digestion. Not because it is bad news mind you. I’ve made peace with the fact that the…
Tag: Cognition
Plastic Rose – The Changing Nature of Memory
Posted on December 31, 2019 by Alex V. Weir
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Isn’t it interesting or perhaps more fittingly alarming that we have precious few markers of passage? A letter is such a finite thing. Perhaps no more finite than a tweet but certainly more tangibly finite. Because the leaf, the bit of tree, it will…
Category: Alex Weir, Current Events, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Commentary, Technology, UncategorizedTags: Cognition, Essays, Ideas, Memory, Mortality, Musings, Time
There is no Homunculus (Vlog)
Posted on December 25, 2019 by Alex V. Weir
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I’m a simple man with a simple lager and proabably should tackle less complicated things. But the more I drink the less I fear looking like an idiot. So….here goes… https://www.pnas.org/content/116/10/3948 “Modularity refers to the idea that mental phenomena arise from the operation of…
Category: Alex Weir, Humor, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Commentary, The Fractal Journal, Uncategorized, VlogTags: Cognition, Damasio, Fodor, Homunculus, Modularity, Neuroscience, Parallel Distributed Processing, Philosophy and Science, PNAS, Science
Of News and our Digestion
Posted on September 23, 2017 by Alex V. Weir
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Musings of a Hound The ‘ring of truth’ is still just an after effect… Or The case for print and excessive subtitles! The news often ruins my digestion. Not because it is bad news mind you. I’ve made peace with the fact that the…
Category: Philosophy, Psychology, Technology, UncategorizedTags: Cognition, Media, News, Society
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