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Friday, February 06, 2015

The Sad Divorce of Mr. Substance and Mrs. Process

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The bad nose: sinus infection. The good nose: antibiotics are on the way, but not until my 2:30 appointment. Not that uncomfortable, but...
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Wednesday, February 04, 2015

Recreating a Realistic Lifestage

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The book we are discussing -- the Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology -- although suitable for lay readers, is not plagued by the us...
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Monday, February 02, 2015

Open Thread

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Because if the Conspiracy didn't occasionally get the upper hand, it wouldn't be much of a game.
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Friday, January 30, 2015

Interpersonal Neurotheology

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Whether you call it grandiose or humble, I could swear that sometimes my otherwise random reading selections are guided by the Holy Spirit. ...
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Thursday, January 29, 2015

Law and Music

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"Law and music." While gazing at the blank computer screen, that phrase popped into my head. Should I follow up? Is it another...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Performing the Theo-symphony

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Not much time this morning, but might as well give it a go. We've been discussing the nature of music, and have concluded that music its...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Building an Astral Body in the Comfort of Your Own Skin, or I Never Speculate!

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Continuing this gnostalgic romp through Nature, Man, and Society , biologist Harold Morowitz describes how "each living thing, includin...
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Monday, January 26, 2015

The World Cannot be a Little Bit Pregnant with Meaning

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Since no other subject occurs to me, we'll just keep whistling this tune until the music's over. In a book that made an impact on me...
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Friday, January 23, 2015

Beauty and Sadness

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Let's see if we can extract any more nuggets of joy from Schopenhauer's manifesto of melancholia. Here's some good news: ...
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Thursday, January 22, 2015

Cosmic Rhythm, Divine Harmony, Planetary Funkmanship, and the Prodigal Melody

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This will be a transitional post, since Petey has not yet informed me of the updated bus schedule. I've picked a subject more or less o...
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

The Past: An Interesting Place to Visit, But I Wouldn't Want to Live There

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Let's race through the last 100 pages of Inventing the Individual in order to mine any final insights. Insights into what? Into how...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

The Great Disentangling

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I'd like to wrap up Inventing the Individual before moving on. One theme that emerges from the book is that while it took centuries fo...
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Monday, January 19, 2015

We All Worship the Same God, We Just Agree Different

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I award this post the Raccoon Squeal of Approval, and declare it to be nihil bobstat , that is, vaguely plausible and free of anything Bob ...
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Friday, January 16, 2015

Liberal Distinctions and Leftist Conflations

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One thing that comes through in Inventing the Individual is how the so-called middle ages ushered in so many vital cognitive distinctions t...
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Thursday, January 15, 2015

If You're Charlie Hebdo, How Come You're Not Rupert Murdoch?

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New principles lead to new uprisings (to deploy one of the left's favorite buzzwords). This is because the mind must first rise up to a...
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