Reflection 327: Dream Talk
Copyright © 2012 by Steve Perrin Where do words come from? We talk from the situation we are currently in—which shapes the vocabulary and syntax of the moment. And situations are the chief...
View ArticleReflection 329: Mooch Report
Copyright © 2012 by Steve Perrin. [Including 16 photos.] Where do Mitt Romney’s non-taxpaying moochers go on vacation? I don’t know about the others, but this September I allowed myself three...
View ArticleReflection 330: Get a Job?
Copyright © 2012 by Steve Perrin. U.S. corporations have gone global, and shipped their jobs overseas to be done by cheaper labor. Leaving millions unemployed here at home, wiping out the entire middle...
View ArticleReflection 331: The Situated Self
Copyright © 2012 by Steve Perrin. [Including 7 photos.] The question is, who controls our primary engagements? Do we defer to the customs of our social world and lend (or give away) our power of...
View ArticleReflection 333: Theory of Mind
Copyright © 2012 by Steve Perrin Here follows an excerpt from a manuscript I’m working on, One Man’s Mind. Memory is the gravitational force that binds consciousness together into a coherent stream of...
View ArticleReflection 334: Theory, revised
Copyright © 2013 by Steve Perrin [with 1 diagram] I’ve been working on my new book on introspective consciousness, so to give you a taste of what’s coming up, I offer this revised version of Toward a...
View ArticleReflection 335: On My Mind
Copyright © 2013 by Steve Perrin I got the idea in 2006, and since early 2008, I’ve been using this blog to sort my streaming thoughts on consciousness into a form that could be put into a book. Which...
View ArticleReflection 336: From my book
Copyright © 2013 by Steve Perrin. Today I uploaded the 3rd corrected proof of my new book, On My Mind, some of which I’d like to share with you as a token of what I’ve been up to for these many months,...
View ArticleReflection 337: Read the Book
Copyright © 2013 by Steve Perrin In 2008, I set out to get my thoughts in order by posting my disconnected reflections on consciousness, my aim being to assemble the gleanings into a book. I wrote my...
View ArticleReflection 338: Book Abstract
Copyright © 2013 by Steve Perrin On My Mind: A New Vision of Consciousness (Lulu.com, May 2013) by Steve Perrin My latest book is about the structure and workings of consciousness as revealed through...
View Article363. It Takes a Mind to Know Anything at All
Mind cannot be inconsistent with the forces that drive the material universe because that’s the meaning of is, to be or exist as a feature of the All, which includes the affective and figurative as...
View Article364. Our Glorious Achievements
So, how does it happen, this mental life of ours? From our point of view, we are born to engage as best we can the local precinct of whatever universe we find ourselves in. Basically, elaborate neural...
View Article365. Darwin’s Facets of Intelligence
These heady days of artificial intelligence imply that we have a full understanding of intelligence in its native form. Apparently it has something to do with the ability to solve problems. Or at least...
View Article366. The Other AI (Authentic Intelligence)
Darwin’s interest 140 years ago was in comparing human minds to animal minds from the point of view of evolution. I devoted my last post to a brief treatment of his findings. My interest today is in...
View Article367. AI: A Brief Reminder of What We Have to Lose
The more I experience the effects that artificial intelligence (AI) imposes on my life, the more I see it as a parody of our native situated intelligence. Once upon a time, corporations employed humans...
View Article371. The Olympic Event We Call Life
Questions, always questions. Setting goals is absolutely no guarantee that we will fulfill our dreams. Hopes, wishes, desires, and all the rest are states of mind that spur us to action. Achieving...
View Article372. Consciousness Arises in a Sea of Choices
Another way of looking at consciousness is to think of it as a result of the comparison between mental possibilities and actualities. Possibilities, that is, offered by the many routes through the...
View Article373. Either Way It’s a Puzzle
The focus of our loop of engagement with the world is revealed by current sensory input meeting up with the original impetus that spurred us to action. When the active and receptive ends of our loops...
View Article374. Brain Talk
Brain talk is full of words like data, information, computation, processing, knowledge, and other terms of that noble family of academic abstractions. But seldom do we live up to the expectations of...
View Article483. Summary in a Word: Consciousness
Engagements between self and other have been around since the early days of one-celled lifeforms drifting about in their aqueous environments. Which-was-which depended on your perspective, that of cell...
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