Monthly Archives: August, 2018

The Elephant in the Brain 2018-08-16
The Reivers 2018-08-14
Kudos 2018-08-06
Circe 2018-08-01

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Dry November: Day 30
Final evening, having finished the re-read of the novel, which was painful in places, in good and bad ways. There is a staggering amount of…
Dry November: Day 29
And death shall have no dominion. A productive day, 320 pages read out of 413, and everything else more-or-less done. A friend’s raucous…
Dry November: Day 28
An exceptional day, in several ways, at the Royal Geographical Society. I haven’t the time to say all I need to say, so I’ll leave you a…
Dry November: Day 27
Nearly finished with my month of not drinking, but like last year not much looking forward to diminution by drink. The only upside I can see…
Dry November: Day 26
In an unexpected turn of events I’m going to How to Change the World on Thursday. Will post about that on Friday.Today I began, after a…
Dry November: Day 25
Learned a lot about power laws and criticality today. Most interesting was this idea that for communication to occur requires both…
Dry November: Day 24
I failed yesterday, or rather through rationalisation and deliberation decided to have some drinks at a pub, at a party. It was good to see…
Dry November: Day 23
Today a discussion of pleasure ex negativo, of whether pleasure can be thought of as absence of pain. Seems plausible, though…
Dry November: Day 22
Today thinking about Shakespeare’s Sonnet XCIV, which somehow reminds me of the chimp/bonobo divide.I’ve also been discussing Sonnet CXXIX…
Dry November: Day 21
Another great day. Tonight I’m thinking about whether connectionism might be more true of “System 1” and computationalism might be more true…

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