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Reflection 160: Of Two Minds
(Copyright © 2009) Like mocha, human consciousness is a blend of two different flavors, natural consciousness and cultural consciousness. Our biological values, drives, and motives are inherently...
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Reflection 181: Farmer & Sailor
(Copyright © 2010) Some years ago, Farmer and Sailor met at a bar in Augusta. After downin’ applejack and rum for couple hours, they went separate ways. “Seems to me,” said Farmer as they parted, “if...
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Reflection 193: This Blog as Project
(Copyright © 2010) I’ve been posting this blog since early October 2008. My original plan was to update my thinking about consciousness, which I’d first explored when writing my dissertation in...
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Reflection 195: Inaction
(Copyright © 2010) If the outcome of consciousness is, as I claim, to make things happen (to build a future, to act in relation to a current situation), what are the implications of those times when we...
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Reflection 236: For-Profit Loops
Copyright © 2012 by Steve Perrin In the concluding chapter of CONSCIOUSNESS: The BOOK I wrote these words: The general welfare is best improved by each of us having equal opportunity to conduct her...
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Reflection 311: Wildness 11
Copyright © 2012 by Steve Perrin. [Including 11 photos.] Standing trees are the joy of the biosphere, that thin but vibrant layer around the Earth that is home to all life we will meet in our...
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383. Human Intelligence—Always Complex, Situated, and Relevant
These days, technologists seem to believe that intelligence is one mental property applicable across the spectrum of all imaginable problems as if our know-how were somehow universal, but that can’t be...
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386. Our Inner Helmsman
Our situated intelligence is the helmsman who steers future behavior in keeping with judgments we make upon the state of affairs signaled by current perception, emotion, and understanding. We all live...
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396. Two Soul Mates in a Single Black Box?
On a daily basis, our engagements proceed by circular routes with many way-stations, both in our minds and in the world. I have frequently mentioned several of the dimensions of our situated...
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486. Consciousness Doled Out in Bullets
I have covered a lot of ground in getting this far with my blog telling the inside story of consciousness. I here offer an opportunity to see that journey not as a sequence of hesitant steps, but as an...
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