How does the brain go beyond processing information to become subjectively aware of information? The answer is: It doesn’t.ну и так далее.
Brusselsexpats: I confess to not knowing this author but will remedy that by reading him in the original French.- from the comments to The real scandal of Patrick Modiano's Nobel win is that Philip Roth is a huge loser – again
theubiquitousmick: How banal. I await his translation into Swahili and shall read him then.
Clodia is no ordinary woman and colliding with her Catullus has struck off poems which are not ordinary. At the closer range we say good and evil, but what the world profits by is intensity. - The Ides of March [pdf]
We are led to Believe a Lie
When we see not Thro' the Eye
Auguries of Innocence by William Blake
If one sifts through Heidegger’s writing in this way, a good detective will find much that suggests, if not Nazism in particular, then at least some longing for conservative revolution. But what works for the detective turns reductive when applied to the interpretation of philosophical texts. A great many philosophers, after all, wrote distasteful things and supported brutal regimes. Aristotle defended slavery. Kant’s writings contain passages that we would not hesitate to characterize today as racist. A philosopher’s politics are not the best measure for the legitimacy of his ideas; nor should knowledge of his intentions, political or otherwise, inhibit us from seeking new instruction in his work. - Heidegger in Blackнет ли в этом...
И снова о наследовании: «Мы выяснили, что даже при условии, что оплодотворил самку второй самец, размер её потомства определялся тем, как питался – будучи личинкой – самец, спарившийся первым» - заявляет сотрудница лаборатории Анджела Крин.новость оказалась волнующей: sciencedaily.com, lenta.ru, Internations Business Times UK - в общем только ленивый не отметился.
